get-vs2017-path
v1.6.1 Visual Studio 2017 COM-Serogate powershell
get-vs2017-path
Try to find Visual Studio installation path via COM or registry
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 language has COM bindings, so I created some scripts that utilize Windows builtin tools to query this information. The resolved information is printed to stdout in JSON, e.g.
[16:32:02.47] C:\code\0tni\get-vs2017-path>tools\try_powershell.cmd
[{
"Product": "Enterprise",
"InstallationPath": "C:\\VS\\2017\\Enterprise",
"Version": "15.0.26206.0",
"SDK": "10.0.14393.795",
"CmdPath": "C:\\VS\\2017\\Enterprise\\Common7\\Tools\\VsDevCmd.bat"
},{
"Product": "BuildTools",
"InstallationPath": "C:\\VS\\2017\\BuildTools",
"Version": "15.0.26206.0",
"SDK": "10.0.14393.795",
"CmdPath": "C:\\VS\\2017\\BuildTools\\Common7\\Tools\\VsDevCmd.bat"
}]
[16:32:04.43] C:\code\0tni\get-vs2017-path>
There are 3 scripts
try_powershell.cmd
will try to JIT compile some C# code that calls COM, and prints the interesting stuff to stdiocompile-run.cmd
will try to find a C# compiler to compile the query then run the generated exetry_registry.cmd
will look for undocumented registry traces
The Javascript interface will find older versions as well
npm i [email protected]
Metadata
- MIT
- Whatever
- Refael Ackermann
- released 2/20/2017