How to get rid of vscode remote development?

Question

I'm using VSCode portable for development. Recently, I tried remote development and get confused between local-mode and remote-mode . Every times I try to install a new extension, VSCode try to install it in "remote".

I tried to find setting to switch to local-mode but there is no setting for that.

I even can't uninstall remote-dev extensions, error messages:

No remote extension to resolve ssh-remote

Tried to download and extract another new fresh D:\\vscode but it still stuck in remote-mode too. (There may be some setting stored in $USER but I can't find out which one is it.)

So, how can I get rid of remote-development-mode and back to my "normal VSCode" again?

Answer 1

Take a look at C:\\Users\\<username>\\.vscode\\extensions , there you can see all vscode extensions installed. Close your vscode, delete folder like ms-remote* , open vscode again. It'll be fine. I've just did it, I got same problem.

Just for safe you can copy the folder elsewhere before remove them.

Answer 2

This did it for me.

https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2019/07/25/remote-ssh#:~:text=To%20switch%20back%20to%20your,extensions%20on%20your%20remote%20machine .

At the bottom of the article:

File > Close Remote Connection.

/Cheers

Answer 3

只需关闭远程连接（文件 > 关闭远程连接）即可解决问题。