Chocolatey Visual Studio Code servicing extension

Package authors use Chocolatey Visual Studio Code servicing extension to manage Visual Studio Code extensions as part of Chocolatey package maintenance on Windows. It supplies helper functions that package scripts can call to handle extension installation and removal instead of embedding that servicing logic directly in each script. This gives extension-related actions a consistent place within the lifecycle of a Chocolatey package.

The functions are available from both Chocolatey install scripts and uninstall scripts, allowing a package to address an extension when it is added and when it is removed. Authors can declare the servicing extension as a dependency in the package’s nuspec file, so its functions are present when those scripts execute. This makes it useful for maintaining packages whose purpose includes delivering Visual Studio Code extensions alongside other packaged software.

It is aimed at Chocolatey package developers and maintainers, particularly when preparing or revising packages that install editor extensions. It is supporting software for Chocolatey package scripts rather than a standalone code editor or a copy of Visual Studio Code. Published by chocolatey, the freeware is a Windows System Tools package, and version 1.1.0 is the current release.