[solved] VS code extension No longer avaliable

Hm. I also see this message “This extension is no longer available on the Extension Marketplace.”, for “Castle Game Engine” and lots of other extensions in my VS Code… I think this happened for me after upgrading VS Code today, I think I didn’t see this message yesterday.

  1. In short: I have no idea yet what is the cause, but it seems that you can ignore this message, actually – it’s not true and it doesn’t imply any loss in functionality.

    • As it applies to numerous other extensions, I will risk saying it’s some weird hiccup in VS Code marketplace servers or new VS Code version or a combination of these 2 things.
    • I will keep observing the situation and report here if I learn anything new / if it changes. If nothing happens, I’ll write to marketplace team for explanation, of course we don’t want such confusing message.
  2. From what I can see, the message is literally not true.

    • The “Castle Game Engine” extension is in the marketplace, you can find it on this link straight to extension.
    • You can search for “Castle Game Engine” from the marketplace main page.
    • As extension publisher, everything also looks OK, my extension page for publisher says that extension is in the marketplace as always, no problems…
  3. The extension, when installed, also continues to work without any problems.

  4. I see a lot of other extensions I have in VS Code (but not all) also show this message. Like:

    • DelphiLSP (from Embarcadero)
    • File Bunny
    • Flip
    • Free Pascal (fpc) Debugger
    • Open File
    • X3D classic encoding (VRML) editing tool (by our @kagamma )
    • Zip Tools
    • … and a few more. I don’t see any pattern here, just some extensions have this weird warning, others don’t.