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?
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.