I am running Visual Studio 2017 Community with the Visual Micro extension, version 1709.6.0. I get notifications from VS about an update of Visual Micro. When I try to install this update, I get this error message:

A value for 'Component' needs to be specified in the catalog. 

I decided to try to uninstall and re-install the extension, but uninstalling gives the same error. This is the (I think) relevant portioin of the uninstallation log:

11/02/2018 12:15:50 - Uninstalling 'Arduino IDE for Visual Studio', version 1709.6.0.
11/02/2018 12:15:50 - pkgCatalogPath is 'C:\PROGRAM FILES (X86)\MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO\2017\COMMUNITY\COMMON7\IDE\EXTENSIONS\53GGN0BH.0I3\catalog.json'.
11/02/2018 12:15:55 - vsPkg.Version is '1709.6.0'.  extension.Header.Version is '1709.6.0'
11/02/2018 12:15:55 - Unable to find component in product catalog with this ID: Component.c2b94433-1774-4242-8062-987a4484f1ed,version=1709.6.0
11/02/2018 12:15:55 - System.InvalidOperationException: A value for 'Component' needs to be specified in the catalog.
   at Install(IInstalledExtension extension, Boolean downgrade)
   at nstalledExtension extension, Boolean forceDelete, Version targetedVSVersion, Boolean downgrade)
   at Extension extension, Version targetedVSVersion)
   at VSIXInstaller.InstallProgressPage.UninstallVsix(String vsixId, SupportedVSSKU targetSku, IProgress`1 progress) 

Any guidance on how to proceed? Thanks in advance.