How to change the version of Visual Studio when opening on github
Found the answer by a different question: Workaround for "Visual Studio Web Request handler could not be found" when using github?
The solution is easy: just reassign the default handler for the git-client protocol. To do that, press the Windows-Key, enter "default apps" and select the settings page. Go down, select "Choose default apps by protocol" and look for "git-client". Click and select the Microsoft Visual Studio Web Protocol Handler Selector for VS2017.
In Windows 10:
- Click Windows Start Button
- Start Typing 'Default apps'
- Choose "Default apps'
- Select "Choose default apps by protocol"
- Find the protocol for the
GIT_CLIENT
,VSTFS
andVSWEB
protocols, and select the default application.
NOTE: In step #5, if you have both VS2017 and VS2019 installed, then you will see two identical items named "Microsoft Visual Studio Web Protocol Handler Selector". But they are different: the first is for VS2017, the second is for 2019.