Can a pre-release be manually uploaded to Marketplace?

[gjsjohnmurray]

Testing #138068

https://code.visualstudio.com/api/working-with-extensions/publishing-extension#publish-an-extension describes how a manual upload of a VSIX created by vsce package is an alternative to uploading it through the vsce publish command.

As I understand #138068, the flag specified on vsce publish is what makes the VSIX a pre-release:

vsce publish --pre-release

Can I use the manual upload route to get a pre-release VSIX into Marketplace? If so, how?

Perhaps related to #138271 from @weinand

[sandy081]

Yes, you can create a pre-release package using vsce by passing --pre-release flag

vsce package --pre-release

and upload the generated vsix to Marketplace. Pre-release properties are part of the extension vsix manifest which gets uploaded to Marketplace. Hence VS Code will identify that as a pre-release version.

CC @isidorn

[gjsjohnmurray]

@isidorn please add this information to https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-docs/blob/vnext/api/working-with-extensions/publishing-extension.md#pre-release-extensions

[isidorn]

Good point. I have updated the docs.