Filter file names and sort order

I have two very basic questions :

  1. how can I filter files, e.g. by extension type
  2. how can I sort files, e.g. by date modified

The Search tab will look for a filter regex in files. What I want is just to not see anything but what I’m filtering. Same for sorting : it looks like it isn’t possible. Am I missing something obvious ?

TIA,

Yves

Version: 0.44.0
VSCode Version: 1.93.1
Commit: e0d6a482c1e7a40f2035787bab666c4487b116d0
Date: 2024-12-18T03:44:12.836Z
Electron: 30.5.1
Chromium: 124.0.6367.243
Node.js: 20.16.0
V8: 12.4.254.20-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22631