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Let’s assume that I would like to downgrade C#<\/i> plugin from newest version (1.8.1<\/i> at the moment) to 1.7.0<\/i>. First of all, we have to uninstall current extension. As there as some issues of doing that via command line, just do it from VSCode<\/i> by clicking on uninstall button in extension screen. In my case, the variables looks as follow<\/p>\n and entire url can be rewritten as<\/p>\n Having the link prepared we can paste it into browser address bar and download the extension. Once the file is downloaded, run VSCode<\/i>, hit CTRL+SHIFT+P<\/i>, type vsix<\/i> in command line and choose<\/p>\n 1. Introduction For time to time when you update Visual Studio Code’s extension you realize that there were some breaking changes you don\u2019t like or the extension has a bug which prevents you from using it. Usually, in this kind of situations, you would like to just go back to the version you were using […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321],"tags":[322],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vscode","tag-vscode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tpodolak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tpodolak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tpodolak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tpodolak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tpodolak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/tpodolak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1072,"href":"https:\/\/tpodolak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions\/1072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tpodolak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tpodolak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tpodolak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nIn the next step we have to download proper extension’s version using vsassets<\/i> api<\/i>. The url pattern looks as follows<\/p>\n\r\nhttps:\/\/${publisher}.gallery.vsassets.io\/_apis\/public\/gallery\/publisher\/${publisher}\/extension\/${extension_name}\/${version}\/assetbyname\/Microsoft.VisualStudio.Services.VSIXPackage\r\n<\/pre>\n\n
\r\nhttps:\/\/ms-vscode.gallery.vsassets.io\/_apis\/public\/gallery\/publisher\/ms-vscode\/extension\/csharp\/1.7.0\/assetbyname\/Microsoft.VisualStudio.Services.VSIXPackage\r\n<\/pre>\n
\r\nExtensions: Install from VSIX...\r\n<\/pre>\n
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\nSelect the file you’ve just downloaded and restart editor after installation. From now on you can use older version of your favorite extension.
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