Virtual Workspaces

[WIP] Extension Author Guide for Supporting Virtual Workspaces

• not affected when an extension has no code, e.g., theme, keybinding, snippets. These extensions work in a virtual workspace setup.

• describe how to test the extension in a virtual workspace setup, e.g., install the memfs extension (it currently sets up a hybrid workspace)

• fs access

  • if your extension is currently using the fs module from Node.js, consider migrating to the vscode.workspace.fs API
  • check the URI scheme for file
  • register language providers for the correct schemes

• third party components that depend on a fs access (e.g. a language server or a node module)

  • set the virtual workspace capability to false

• non applicable commands

  • use the virtualWorkspace when context key to disable commands that are not applicable