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Can't uninstall extension from Visual Studio 2017 #1393
Description
- GitHub Extension for Visual Studio version: 2.2.0.10
- Visual Studio version: 15.6.85+g13c9ab559b
What happened
- Clicked on
Revertto revert the extension to2.2.0.10:
- Closed Visual Studio
- Clicked on
Modify - VSIX Installer dialog shows
Modifications Complete - Relaunched Visual Studio
- Clicked on
Uninstallto remove the extension:
- Closed Visual Studio
- Clicked on
Modify - Uninstall dialog shows
Modifications Failed
Here is the log:
VSIXInstaller_539b821d-57ec-4c11-be13-f077e7c14721.log
Here is some pertinent info from the log:
15/12/2017 10:41:44 - Microsoft VSIX Installer
15/12/2017 10:41:44 - -------------------------------------------
15/12/2017 10:41:44 - vsixinstaller.exe version:
15/12/2017 10:41:44 - 15.6.85+g13c9ab559b
15/12/2017 10:41:44 - -------------------------------------------
15/12/2017 10:41:47 - Initializing Uninstall...
15/12/2017 10:41:47 - Extension Details...
15/12/2017 10:41:47 - Identifier : c3d3dc68-c977-411f-b3e8-03b0dccf7dfc
15/12/2017 10:41:47 - Name : GitHub Extension for Visual Studio
15/12/2017 10:41:47 - Author : GitHub, Inc
15/12/2017 10:41:47 - Version : 2.2.0.10
15/12/2017 10:41:47 - Description : A Visual Studio Extension that brings the GitHub Flow into Visual Studio.
15/12/2017 10:41:47 - Locale : en-US
15/12/2017 10:41:47 - MoreInfoURL : https://visualstudio.github.com/
15/12/2017 10:41:47 - InstalledByMSI : False
15/12/2017 10:41:47 - SupportedFrameworkVersionRange : [4.5,)
15/12/2017 10:41:47 -
15/12/2017 10:42:40 - The following target products have been selected...
15/12/2017 10:42:40 - Microsoft Visual Studio Team Explorer 2017
15/12/2017 10:42:40 -
15/12/2017 10:42:41 - Uninstalling 'GitHub Extension for Visual Studio', version 2.2.0.10.
15/12/2017 10:42:41 - pkgCatalogPath is 'C:\PROGRAM FILES (X86)\MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO\2017\TEAMEXPLORER\COMMON7\IDE\EXTENSIONS\WYHGZAQI.MH1\catalog.json'.
15/12/2017 10:42:42 - vsPkg.Version is '2.2.0.10'. extension.Header.Version is '2.2.0.10'
15/12/2017 10:42:42 - Embedded catalog does not contain a component.
15/12/2017 10:42:42 - System.InvalidOperationException: A value for 'Component' needs to be specified in the catalog.
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensionManager.ExtensionEngineImpl.PerformSetupEngineUnInstall(IInstalledExtension extension, Boolean downgrade)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensionManager.ExtensionEngineImpl.UninstallInternal(IInstalledExtension extension, Boolean forceDelete, Version targetedVSVersion, Boolean downgrade)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensionManager.ExtensionEngineImpl.Uninstall(IInstalledExtension extension, Version targetedVSVersion)
at VSIXInstaller.InstallProgressPage.UninstallVsix(String vsixId, SupportedVSSKU targetSku, IProgress`1 progress)
Attempt to resolve
I have 3 versions installed, so I'm not sure which directory use use:
cd c:\programdata\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Packages\_Instances\
dir
15/12/2017 10:25 <DIR> 92b5e4e1
05/12/2017 20:57 <DIR> a23816c9
15/12/2017 10:22 <DIR> c6ffbe0c
Will try the following from: #1206 (comment)
This fix is actually pretty painful (especially if you have more than one version installed) and not something we'd want to give our users!