VSIX Viewer

A simple viewer for VSIX files, which lets you see the contents of VSIX files within Visual Studio Code.

Features

• Dedicated Activity Bar Panel: Access VSIX Viewer from its own panel in the Activity Bar
• Automatic Workspace Scanning: Automatically detects and displays all VSIX files in your workspace
• File Tree Exploration: Browse the contents of VSIX files in an intuitive tree view
• File Preview: Click on any file in the tree to preview its contents
• Real-time Updates: Automatically detects when VSIX files are added or removed from your workspace
• File Count Badge: Shows the number of VSIX files found in your workspace (configurable)
• Custom File Icons: Rich icon support for various file types within VSIX files
• Multiple VSIX Support: View multiple VSIX files simultaneously in the same workspace
• Refresh Command: Manually refresh the list of VSIX files when needed

Usage

VSIX files are automatically detected when you open a workspace containing them. The VSIX Viewer panel will appear in the Activity Bar, showing all VSIX files found in your workspace.

• Click on any file in the tree to preview its contents
• Use the refresh button in the panel toolbar to rescan for VSIX files
• Run Refresh VSIX Files from the Command Palette to manually refresh

Configuration

Badge Display

You can control whether the file count badge is displayed in the VSIX Viewer panel:

{
    "vsixViewer.showBadge": true
}

Set to false to hide the badge.

Change Log

See Change Log here

Issues

If you find any bug or have any suggestion/feature request, please submit the issues to the GitHub repo.

Credits

Some icons comes from the brilliant vscode-icons extension for Visual Studio Code.