Show Number of Disabled Extensions in VS Code

[anasir975]

vscode.extension.all displays the number of extensions installed in the machine programmatically. Is there any way to find out the number or list of extensions that have been disabled programmatically?
I asked the same question in Stack Overflow and nobody replied yet :) .

[alefragnani]

Hi @anasir975 ,

If you loop through the enumerator, you can see a few attributes for each Extension, but unfortunately, there is no enable state.

There is however an isActive state, but it only says if the extension was activated, which depends on activationEvents entry.

        for (const ext of vscode.extensions.all) {
            const anExtension = await vscode.extensions.getExtension(ext.id);
            if (!anExtension) { continue }

            const isActive = anExtension.isActive ? "$(check-all)" : "$(info)";

            const name = anExtension.packageJSON.displayName ?? anExt?.packageJSON.name;
            const publisher = anExtension.packageJSON.isBuiltin ? "(builtin)" : "";
            ...
        }

If you really need the enabled/disabled state, you will need to open a new issue on VS Code repo

Hope this helps

[anasir975]

I posted there as well but then they redirected me here

[gjsjohnmurray]

microsoft/vscode#156802

It seemed worth checking here in case any other extension developers had come up with a way of doing this.

[alefragnani]

Ops.. maybe because you asked a question, and the recommended location for questions was Stack Overflow and Slack Channel, and now this Discussions repo.

So, the point is, if you really need the enabled state, instead of asking a question there, open a Feature Request issue (https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/new?assignees=&labels=&template=feature_request.md), asking for a new API. Then, the VS Code team should evaluate it differently.

[anasir975]

Thank you so very much @gjsjohnmurray and @alefragnani :)

[alefragnani]

You're welcome!