Changing marketplace publisher from ms-vscode to ms-dotnettools causes extension recommendations to repeat ad nauseum

Steps to reproduce

1. Have an old version of the extension installed that uses ms-vscode.csharp as the extension ID.
2. Be upgraded to ms-dotnettools.csharp.
3. Have a project that uses extension recommendations, set up to install the extension under the new ms-dotnettools.csharp

Expected behavior

Everything keeps working normally.

Actual behavior

Constantly keep being pestered with the need to install a not-yet-installed recommended extension, even though the extension is already installed.

[zachstronaut]

I’ve had to stop work and waste hours searching for a solution and finally happened on this thread. Not good as I’m self-employed. I don’t know where to start with “rolling back” things. Surely there was a more graceful way to have handled this change? Was it absolutely necessary to change publisher id?? Millions of devs use VSCode.

Same here. Instructions:

1. uninstall c# extension (and disable any other extensions that are throwing errors because of c# not being “found”).

2. Download csharp-1.21.12.vsix from here: https://github.com/OmniSharp/omnisharp-vscode/releases/tag/v1.21.12

3. Restart VS Code

4. Open the Command Palette in VS Code. Search for “shell command install” and run that

5. Open a command line terminal and go to the folder you downloaded the vsix file to

6. Run: code --install-extension csharp-1.21.12.vsix

7. Restart VS Code

8. Open Preferences -> Settings in VS Code. Search for “update” and uncheck Extensions: Auto Update

Microsoft products are uniquely affected by Mercury Retrogrades.

[videopilot]

Unfortunately, it also seems to prevent other extensions from loading: