Description
- GitHub Extension for Visual Studio version: 2.2.0.8
- Visual Studio version: VS 2015/2017
There are lots of exceptions in the error log file (7 pages!) from when Visual Studio constructs its MEF catalog. Here is the Microsoft.VisualStudio.Default.err log from VS 2017:
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Default.err.txt
This is a known issue (and workaround) caused by a version change to the Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Controls assembly between VS 2015 and 2017.
The GitHub.TeamFoundation.14 assembly is compiled against Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Controls, Version=14.0.0.0 and intended to rune inside VS 2015. The GitHub.TeamFoundation.15 assembly is compiled against Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Controls, Version=15.0.0.0 and intended to rune inside VS 2017.
Unfortunately it isn't possible to specify different assemblies for different versions of Visual Studio inside a VSIX file, so Visual Studio attempts to install both assemblies which results in the errors.
Update: is is possible in recent versions of Visual Studio 2017 See c9703cd
I wonder if it's possible to somehow forward MEF exports to the GitHub.TeamFoundation.14 and GitHub.TeamFoundation.15 assemblies and avoid these errors?