This is more of a feature request, now that I discovered the source of the problem when asked in the bug reporting template what version of GitHub Extension for Visual Studio that I was using.

It would be great if Visual Studio actually checked for minimum requirements, and prompted the user with a warning that an extension upgrade is needed, rather than just displaying an unintuitive error to the screen.

Here are the details of what I saw:

Versions

• GitHub Extension for Visual Studio version: 2.11.102.28613
• Visual Studio version:
  

What happened

Error when double clicking on open Issue in new GitHub tab.

Steps to Reproduce

Open Project. (in my case VerilogLanguageExtension)
Navigate to GitHub tab.
Double click on the open issue:

Observe error that occurs. (see screensnip, below)

Expected behavior

Open the issue, no error.

Screenshots

Logs

C:\Users\gojimmypi\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\16.0_d46d6b9a

• %appdata%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\ActivityLog.xml

• %localappdata%\temp\extension.log

• %localappdata%\GitHubVisualStudio\extension.log

• Windows Event Viewer
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Additional context

Solution: Update GitHub extension.