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WARNING: This project has been renamed to get-vs2017-path. Install using get-vs7-path instead.

get-vs7-path

Try to find the VS7 buildtools path via COM or registry

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As of VS7 (a.k.a. Visual Studio 2017) Microsoft recommends to query the VS setup state via COM, but not everybody is fluent in COM, and not every langugae has COM bindings, so I creted some scripts that utilize Windows builtin tools to query this information. All resolved information is printed to stdout in an easy to parsed format e.g.

C:\code\0tni\get-vs7-path> Tools\try_powershell.cmd
InstallationPath: D:\bin\dev\VS\2017\BuildTools
Product: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Product.BuildTools
SDK: 10.0.14393.795

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There are 3 scripts

1. try_powershell.cmd will try to JIT compile some C# code that calls COM, and prints the interesting stuff to stdio
2. compile-run.cmd will try to find a C# compiler to compile the query then run the generated exe
3. try_registry.cmd will look for undocumented registry traces