Configure AllowedExtensions Group policy is limited to 1024 characters, longer policy is ignored

[ckrueger1979]

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes

• VS Code Version: 1.97.2
• OS Version: Win11 23H2

Steps to Reproduce:

1. set HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\VSCode\AllowedExtensions to a string longer then 1024 characters
2. Visual studio code will ignore the policy

@isidorn 1024 is way to short for an allow list, we can't implement that policy :-(

This was the feature introduction: #84756

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[ckrueger1979]

seems to be silently fixed in 1.98.0

[isidorn]

@ckrueger1979 thanks for filling this. @sandy081 fixed this by making this group policy be a string array, and not a string. Thus extending the limit.

I will go ahead and close this one