We would love to hear from you! For issues, let us know through the Report a Problem option in the upper right-handĬorner of either the installer or the Visual Studio IDE itself. If you travel somewhere where your internet connection is not great.For older versions of Visual Studio, see the system requirements for Visual Studio 2017, Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio 2013, or Visual Studio 2012. Don't use themes or extensions that use Language Servers, as they will constantly communicate with a server, which is not good if your internet connection is in the Kilobytes. Then when you use VSCode in a place where you have a bad internet connection, you can uninstall all of your extensions manually by deleting them from your $HOME/.vscode/extensions directory, and then reinstall them 1 by 1 so you can see the individual impact that the extensions are having on your machine, and internet connection your using. When you are in a place where you have a good internet connection, download all of the extensions you use as VSIX files, straight from the market place. The true size of the extension can be seen in your operating systems $HOME/.vscode/extensions directory (I use Linux so the directory for windows is probably in the same place, relativity speaking, the pathname probably just looks different and has a 'C:' and back-slashes instead of fwd-slashes).

When an author of an extension publishes their extension to the market place, they publish their extensions VSIX file, which in technical terms is a compacted representation of the data that makes up the extension, therefore, you are not actually seeing the true size of the extension. Microsoft uses a special Visual Studio packaging for VS-Code, and Visual Studio(IDE) extensions - its called VSIX. When you download an extension via the VSCode Market Place you get the opportunity - like with any other download from the browser - to look at the KB, or MB, that you will be downloading, however I've looked and asked about this as well, and I believe the answer to your question yes and no.

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