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Can't uninstall extension from Visual Studio 2017

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@jcansdale

Description

  • GitHub Extension for Visual Studio version: 2.2.0.10
  • Visual Studio version: 15.6.85+g13c9ab559b

What happened

  1. Clicked on Revert to revert the extension to 2.2.0.10:
    image
  2. Closed Visual Studio
  3. Clicked on Modify
  4. VSIX Installer dialog shows Modifications Complete
  5. Relaunched Visual Studio
  6. Clicked on Uninstall to remove the extension:
    image
  7. Closed Visual Studio
  8. Clicked on Modify
  9. Uninstall dialog shows Modifications Failed
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    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!