I already setup some settings and package on the normal version, is there how to migrate the data from the normal installation version to this portable version?

After installing the C# extension VS Code gives this error message:
The .NET CLI tools cannot be located. .NET Core debugging will not be enabled. Make sure .NET CLI tools are installed and are on the path.

There is a setting for C# which disables this warning.
"Suppress Dotnet Install Warning" found under "User Settings>Extensions>C# configuration"

But there is something wrong with this portable installation since when I type "dotnet new console" in the terminal I get this error:

dotnet : The term 'dotnet' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script
 file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included,
 verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1
+ dotnet new console
+ ~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (dotnet:String) [], CommandNotFoundExce 
   ption
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

I can't apply updates, neither through auto-updates nor by manually overwriting files. The process is pretty unclear to me.

There is a new version available,
version 1.7 with the 1.7.1 Recovery Build.

Changelog: https://code.visualstudio.com/Updates

Would be very thankful for an update.

Hello,

Visual Studio Code Portable install the extensions in C:\Users\sdl96354\.vscode\extensions. I use a PC from my work and this folder has a restricted size. It it possible to use another folder?

Currently Microsoft Visual Studio Code is at version 1.18.0 (see https://code.visualstudio.com/updates). However, this version/repository is still at 1.16.1, which is at least three versions behind the current version (1.17.0, 1.17.1 and now 1.18.0).
I've tested the latest version as a portable app and it works fine, so you should be able to update the version number and archive information without it causing any problems.

VSCode's icon has also recently changed, the colour went from blue to orange (and the design is different), and it would probably be prudent to incorporate that change into this repository. To that end, I've forked your repository and changed all the icons (as well as remade the launcher, so it makes use of the new icons).

If you don't mind, I'll submit a pull request after submitting this issue to incorporate both changes. Feel free to look it over, but of course you're not obliged to incorporate the changes into your own repository.

Thank you for an excellent and most valuable project.
I'm seeing one issue: After closing VS code there are up to four orphaned Code.exe processes running in the background consuming RAM, and when VS code is opened again and then closed minutes later, there are then more orphaned Code.exe processes, as seen in Task Manager, and free RAM gets consumed, possibly crashing the computer. This is a Windows 10, 64 bit machine.

Hi there,

Minor issue here.
I downloaded the portable version from sourceforge and when I opened the file I got the following error.

Is seems that the file has to be renamed to VSCodePortable_Latest_online.paf.exe in order to be able to download files from the internet. As it indicates this is so the user knows that the file will download something from the network.

This url always points to the latest Windows version in a zip file. Just extract contents into VSCodePortable/App/VSCode and done. The only issue would be figuring out how to check if an update is necessary.

Hi Gareth,

unfortunately Microsoft has released the new build 1.3.1 (Recovery build of 2016-07-12):

• Visual Studio Code Updates: https://code.visualstudio.com/Updates
• direct download (zip): https://code.visualstudio.com/docs?dv=winzip
• direct download (exe): https://az764295.vo.msecnd.net/stable/e6b4afa53e9c0f54edef1673de9001e9f0f547ae/VSCodeSetup-stable.exe
• list of bugs solved: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/milestone/24?closed=1

Thanks

VSCode does not launch after extraction

Is there a way you could provide us with instructions on how you make VSCode portable ?

Will you be releasing a portable Linux version of this?
I like having my toolbox USB loaded up with cross platform software, and since VS Code already has a Linux version, making it portable, shouldn't be all that hard. :)

Can you bundle all within an offline installer, or at least make it a zip that can be extracted to the installation directory? Is it really slow downloading through the installer in some circumstances.

Why code not available here http://portableapps.com/apps? It means no automatic updates by platform.

When I try to start VS code, code.exe starts running but the programm itself is missing. I've tried this on multiple machines, but the problem remains the same.

The extension CommandBar is very useful! The config file it generated not located under path "VSCodePortable\Data".

I notice that 2 folders are created on local machine when staring the app. 1 is at the user profile and 1 is at the %APPDATA% folder. If the VSCodePortable.exe is close in a not graceful way those 2 folders stay on the machine.

• VSCode poratble installed successully
• C# Extension installed, editor restarted and got error:

Installing C# dependencies...
Platform: win32, x86_64

Downloading package 'OmniSharp for Windows (.NET 4.6 / x64)' 	Retrying from 'https://omnisharpdownload.blob.core.windows.net/ext/omnisharp-win-x64-1.29.1.zip' Downloading package '.NET Core Debugger (Windows / x64)' 	Retrying from 'https://vsdebugger.blob.core.windows.net/coreclr-debug-1-14-7/coreclr-debug-win7-x64.zip' 
Installing package 'OmniSharp for Windows (.NET 4.6 / x64)'
Failed at stage: installPackages
Error: end of central directory record signature not found

Finished

I would like to start portable VS Code from the command line. For example I would like to start it with

code .

Renaming the exe to code caused an exception. Any ideas?

Clicking the link, the page loads till "the connection has timed out".

Hi Gareth,

VS Code worked fine so far. Since a few days (I guess after upgrading to V 1.6.1) it freezes completly after start. The same folder, the same files opened by VS Code locally - everything is fine. Cleaned the cache files, cleaned the VS Code Folder and refilled it with a bunch of "clean" files - but nothing changed.

Then I realized that it might be a "css problem"
on VS Code portable:

VS Code portable (works fine):

Would be great if you can help!
thanks
Thorsten

Upgrading from a previous version by simply overwriting the portable app blows away user configurations (extensions, configuration settings, etc.). Any way you could post instructions for salvaging user configurations while upgrading to new versions?

Thanks,
Josh

Create both a 32bit and 64bit version.

The only problem I see is that it downloads both 32 Bit and 64 Bit versions of VS Code.
It takes a lot of time on slow connections.
I'd argue 99% of users use 64 Bit version so to the least I'd like to see a 64 Bit version only.

Originally posted by @RoyiAvital in #53 (comment)

Still attempted to run it, but it cannot run because of privileges. This is definitely an issue with my computer at work unfortunately.

Is it possible to install extensions via the commandline with the portable version? According the documentation, this is available in the standard install:
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/extension-gallery#_command-line-extension-management

but when I try it to use "VSCodePortable.exe --list-extensions" it just opens the editor.

I don't do twitter to contact you. So you can close this issue when you see it.
I just wanted to say THANK YOU! for making this. You have no idea how much this has helped me.

I downloaded the zip file straight from this page and unpacked it. Tried to start it up. Was greeted with:

Nice app bro

When I set the programming language to Chinese, the program restarts in English.

Can I use x64 version?

I added an extension folder into Data\vscode\extensions. When I start VSCodePortable the folder is not copied to .vscode\extensions and the extension folder under Data\vscode\extensions is gone after I close VSCodePortable.

I'm running on windows. And when I open the user settings.json from the quickbar it create a new one in the non-portable location, "%appdata%/code".

App dont start if put VSCode folder in folder with "#" in name (like "# programs")

Hello, I have been provided your app by a teacher a year ago, and thought it was a really useful to code since it's waaay lighter than the original app and we can use it on anything, which is useful if you have to code on the go. But since then, I my storage device failed and I had to redownload it... Only to find that I couldn't run it because of a missing file as seen below.

"Visual Studio Code Portable couldn't start. You could try to reinstall it to solve the problem. (ERROR: App\VSCode64\code.exe not found)"

I hope you can solve this quickly as this app is really important for me and I have a too bad internet provider to download the 17 GB of the main app (if it is even compatible).

Have a good day and keep up th good work.

EDIT: Translated the error message from french to english.

Not defined locale in locale.json as language selected during install.
Always VSC install in english, "locale":"en"

I am trying to download and install Visual Studio Code Portable.
When I double-click the downloaded file, I get the following error:

ProtableApps.com Installers that download files must end with "_online.paf.exe".
This is to ensure that users always know that an installer downloads files before it is run.
Please rename the file to end in _online.paf.exe before running.

Hi

I am using the official portable git and I pointed git.path to its directory, it seems to work but it keeps opening terminal instances for every single command and its a little bit annoying and make me loose focus. Do you think there may be a better solution, since unlike Atom, Visual Studio Code does not ship with built-in git support?

hi good day! i am a student and still learning a lot of things. i was wondering how can i update my old version of vscode portable? can i just extract the new files in my old folder so that i wont have to re install all the plugins in my old version? thank you for your time reading my question. regards

You'r app is not working for me, what am I doing wrong?
FAILURE: App\VSCode\code.exe not found

What about the .zip provided by MS, where is the difference?
https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/?dv=winzip

As the title “PlatformIO Core (CLI)” by default is installed in the “C:\Users\ad\AppData\Roaming\SPB_Data”.

To be truly portable I would like to install “PlatformIO Core (CLI)” in a folder of my choice, for example the Visual Studio Code folder.

Thank you for reading this message.

Stefano

Hi Gareth,
Microsoft has released in june 2016 the new version 1.3.0 of Microsoft Visual Code:

• program page: https://code.visualstudio.com/
• download page: https://code.visualstudio.com/Updates
• direct download (zip): https://code.visualstudio.com/docs?dv=winzip
• direct download (exe): https://az764295.vo.msecnd.net/stable/e724f269ded347b49fcf1657fc576399354e6703/VSCodeSetup-stable.exe

The argument that specifies the location of extensions has changed - see microsoft/vscode@9f1f36c.

#25

When I restart VSCodePortable, can it reload files that were open when I closed VSCodePortable?

Hi there

Git has to be installed to use it within VSCode, however there is GitPortable available within PA format.

Would it be possible to let VSCodePortable use GitPortable?