Incorporation of the AZUREDATASTUDIO_EXTENSIONS environment variable as a replacement or prevailing alternative to VSCODE_EXTENSIONS.

[claudio-salvio]

In VSCode, I use the VSCODE_EXTENSIONS environment variable to make it so that all users using the program on a computer have the same set of extensions available without having to replicate it to each user profile.

I would like to do the same thing with Azure Data Studio (ADS) but would want to have a specific environment variable for it. That variable could be called AZUREDATASTUDIO_EXTENSIONS or ADS_EXTENSIONS. It could replace the VSCODE_EXTENSIONS variable or supplement it in a prevalent way. What I want to imply by this is that if both are declared only the ADS specific variable should be taken into account.

From what I found exploring the source code it seems to be used only in: https://github.com/microsoft/azuredatastudio/blob/3cb2f552a6f004dccd153577aecfd75f3d1bacae/src/vs/platform/environment/common/environmentService.ts#L147

It seems to me that this could be achieved by replacing:

const vscodeExtensions = env['VSCODE_EXTENSIONS'];

with:

const vscodeExtensions = env['AZUREDATASTUDIO_EXTENSIONS'] ?? env['VSCODE_EXTENSIONS'];

Greetings, Claudio

[Charles-Gagnon]

Good suggestion! I've opened a PR for adding ADS_EXTENSIONS as an option : https://github.com/microsoft/azuredatastudio/pull/16747

[claudio-salvio]

@Charles-Gagnon Thank you!