Marketplace Extension behavior

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Marketplace Extension behavior

Pre-knowledge

VSCode Extension has two release types:

• Release
• Pre-Release

You can create a Pre-Release package using --pre-release flag.

vsce publish --pre-release

How to operate when there are available Release and Pre-Release extensions

According to the guideline,

VS Code will auto update extensions to the highest version available, so even if a user opted into a pre-release version, once there is an extension released with a high version, that user will be updated to the released version.

from https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_63#_publishing-prerelease-extensions

Cases

• What happens if a Pre-Release is published while Release is installed?
  • Auto update? : no
  • Show Switch to Pre-Release Version icon
    • If clicked this icon, Pre-Release version is installed and Show Switch to Release Version icon
• What happens if a Release is published while Release is installed?
  • Auto update? : yes
• What happens if a Pre-Release is published while Pre-Release is installed?
  • Auto update? : yes
• What happens if a Release is published while Pre-Release is installed?
  • Auto update? : yes
  • There is no way to install the previous Pre-Release version

Related issue: #1473