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+<!--
+Thanks a lot for reporting issues to Gauge! This is the issue tracker for reporting bugs or for requesting new feature and enhancements.
+
+If you have any support related questions, please refer our documentation at http://getgauge.io/documentation/user/current/. You can even ask questions on Google groups (http://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/getgauge) or on gitter (https://gitter.im/getgauge/chat).
+
+This is the issue tracker for Gauge core. Find other components at https://github.com/getgauge
+
+Please delete irrelevant sections below. 
+-->
+
+### Expected behavior
+Tell us what should happen
+
+### Actual behavior
+Tell us what happens instead
+
+### Steps to reproduce
+1.
+2.
+3.
+
+### Version Information
+
+VisualStudio Version and Edition  :-
+Gauge VisualStudio Plugin Version :-
+
+```
+Run gauge -v on your system and paste the results here.
+```