🐛 GitHub Desktop can't find Visual Studio Code (VSCode) when installed via package manager 🤷🏻‍♂️

Describe the bug

I have Visual Studio Code installed on my dev system using the well-known scoop package manager. I can run code from the command line to launch VSCode. I use scoop update * to keep all of my software packages up-to-date.

I have also installed GitHub Desktop with scoop, using scoop install github.

Unfortunately, GitHub Desktop doesn’t seem to be able to “find” VSCode. I am not sure how the detection is working, but I do have VSCode installed and up-to-date on my system.

Version & OS

• Windows 11 Dev Preview
• GitHub Desktop version 2.9.6

Steps to reproduce the behavior

Use the ephemeral Windows Sandbox VM to run PowerShell and issue these commands:

Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

# Install Scoop
iwr -useb get.scoop.sh | iex

# Install git
scoop install git

# Add the "extras" bucket for scoop
scoop bucket add extras

# Install VSCode and GitHub Desktop
scoop install vscode github

Expected behavior

GitHub Desktop should see that VSCode is installed, and accessible on the $PATH environment variable, and launch it using that command.

Actual behavior

Logs

2022-01-31T17:54:13.573Z - info: [ui] [AppStore] loading 0 repositories from store
2022-01-31T17:54:13.751Z - info: [ui] [Welcome] no sign in step found. ignoring...
2022-01-31T17:54:13.843Z - info: [ui] launching: 2.9.6 (Windows 10.0.22523)
2022-01-31T17:54:13.844Z - info: [ui] execPath: 'C:\Users\WDAGUtilityAccount\scoop\apps\github\current\GitHubDesktop.exe'
2022-01-31T17:54:13.848Z - error: [ui] Error checking for updates
Error: The application is missing a dependency it needs to check and install updates. This is very, very bad.
    at file:///C:/Users/WDAGUtilityAccount/scoop/apps/github/2.9.6/resources/app/renderer.js:55:146726
    at onAutoUpdaterError (file:///C:/Users/WDAGUtilityAccount/scoop/apps/github/2.9.6/resources/app/renderer.js:55:147142)
    at CallbacksRegistry.apply (electron/js2c/renderer_init.js:107:834)
    at electron/js2c/renderer_init.js:83:5623
    at electron/js2c/renderer_init.js:83:5332
    at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (electron/js2c/renderer_init.js:103:732)
    at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:315:20)
    at Object.onMessage (electron/js2c/renderer_init.js:91:925)
2022-01-31T17:54:13.852Z - info: [ui] [Welcome] no sign in step found. ignoring...
2022-01-31T17:54:13.978Z - info: [ui] Opt in reported.
2022-01-31T17:54:14.012Z - info: [ui] [Welcome] no sign in step found. ignoring...
2022-01-31T17:54:15.944Z - info: [ui] [Welcome] advancing to step: ConfigureGit
2022-01-31T17:54:29.627Z - info: [ui] [AppStore] adding repository at C:\Users\WDAGUtilityAccount\Documents\GitHub\asdf to store

[babyrusa]

@sergiou87 can you repeat the suggestion please? i have the same issue for months now where Github suddenly misses the option to open with VSCode.

[TNTErick]

Same here on Win10, Github Desktop installed from the Setup.exe; Win10 was reinstalled at some point so there is no uninstall key, but VS Code is kept on another disk.