How to launch Visual Studio with only certain extensions enabled

[stamminator]

This is not a Codist-specific question, but since the author has a massive amount of Visual Studio knowledge, I figured this might be a good place to ask. Is there a way to launch Visual Studio with certain extensions enabled and other disabled? I realize this could technically be accomplished by installing all the "always" extensions at the machine level, installing the "sometimes" extensions at the user level, and launching in Safe Mode, but this is a very inflexible solution that might have unintended side-effects.

My use case is that I have a bunch of extensions related to VSSDK/extension development whose overhead I'd only like to incur when I'm actively developing or debugging an extension.

[wmjordan]

I don't think on the extension level can do this gracefully.

VS has to be restarted once an extension is installed, uninstalled, enabled or disabled.

There might be a location in the registry to control the availability of extensions.
A somewhat dirty but quick solution is to find out the places where your extensions are installed, for instance:

C:\Users[YOUR_USERNAME]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\18.0_[YOUR_VS_INSTALL_ID]\Extensions

Then create two bat files to rename/restore those extensions that you don't what to disable/enable before launching VS.