Is there an enterprise policy to prevent VSIX extension installation?
09:07 06 Jul 2026

Is there a supported way to disable "Install from VSIX..." in VS Code?

Specifically, I'm trying to understand whether VS Code provides any built-in setting or enterprise policy to:

  • Disable the Install from VSIX... option in the Extensions view.

  • Prevent installation via code --install-extension .vsix.

If this isn't supported natively, what is the recommended approach to prevent manual VSIX installation?

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