Document: Port to portable mode

[schlamar]

To port from zipped 1.24 to real portable mode 1.25 I

• moved C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Code to <VSCode>\data\user-data
• moved C:\Users\<username>\.vscode\extensions to <VSCode>\data\extensions

For now, everything seems to be working fine.

Is this the recommended way to port an existing setup to real portable mode? If yes, you should consider adding this to the docs.

[joaomoreno]

Yes that should do it. Not sure this warrants a docs section. If we get more questions/requests, I'll put it in the docs.

[eromoe]

@schlamar
I can't open vscode after doing that.

[joaomoreno]

Reopening for documentation.

[joaomoreno]

microsoft/vscode-docs#1722

[eromoe]

@joaomoreno
I do construct folder like that. My home PC did work, but my work PC didn't . Vscode even don't show up , and there is no error msg .

They are both win10 x64, the only different is vscode install in Driver C in my work PC . Which need admin right to copy files into, may be by this ?

[joaomoreno]

Portable mode is not supported if you install VS Code. It is only supported if you get the ZIP download.

[eromoe]

No, it sopport both installed and zip version actually . Everything is fine after moving to
driver D . I tested it in weekend, this must be some privilege problems in windows 10 driver C .

[jpresley]

I have all of that working but I still can't run dotnet commands like dotnet new console without installing the CLI on the host machine. I have downloaded the CLI zip and have it on my drive but when I try to run the commands through the integrated terminal it errors stating that dotnet is not a cmdlet function etc. How do I get the integrated terminal or VS code or OmniSharp or whatever to look at the CLI on the portable drive and not just look for it in the default location on the C: drive?