Here is the logs from VS extension.log (Edited for privacy 😄 )

You should instead call GetServiceAsync (without calling Result or Wait on the resultant Task object) or switch to the UI thread with the JoinableTaskFactory.SwitchToMainThreadAsync method before calling GetService.Īt .GetService(Type serviceType)Īt .(Type serviceType)Īt (Type serviceType) Full Logs from the actions mentioned above System.InvalidOperationException: Due to high risk of deadlock you cannot call GetService from a background thread in an AsyncPackage derived class. 23:56:29.247 EROR GitHubServiceProvider Error loading In other words, I don't see why Admin privileges could make difference ❓ ❗ 🔴 The only clear error in logs: But what I'm sure about, is that GitHub extension is failing to see GitHub during a moment of time because some reason. I don't know if there is a difference between configuring an app to run as Admin by default and Right Click then run as admin. I closed VS2019 without entering my credentials as was asked in previous step and went to start menu, clicked right on VS shortcut, Run as Administrator, the result is GitHub connected successfully! I tried to fetch changes from GitHub the got asked to enter my GitHub credentials:

Today I double clicked and got the following message in 'Connections' of Team Explorer :

In fact, VS2019 is configured to run as administrator, I mean each time I double click on VS2019 is running with admin privileges, (At least this is what I see in the top right corner of VS). I come back to you because I have enabled verbose logging before I get again the same error.

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