Gradle issue when setting build tools

[Karlovsky120]

I have two "versions" of visual studio: Build tools and Team explorer.

Build tools is essentially MSBuild, while Team explorer is CLI and GUI client for TFVC.
Version of Team explorer that I have is newer than that of Build tools.

This means that the this bit here:

exec {
    executable "${rootDir}\\tools\\vswhere.exe"
    args '-latest','-property','installationPath','-products','*'
    standardOutput = stdout
    workingDir rootDir
}

returns the location of Team explorer instead of Build tools.

I've fixed the issue for my case by replacing the '*' after the products with 'Build Tools', but that won't work for most people, since I belive most people have msbuild.exe as a part of proper visual studio installation.

[matkoch]

Could you please check if vswhere -latest -requires Microsoft.Component.MSBuild -find MSBuild\**\Bin\MSBuild.exe returns the correct path for you?

[Karlovsky120]

It returns Error 0x57: Unknown parameter: find.
If I remove find and the path after it, it just returns nothing.

[matkoch]

Sorry, you need to download the latest vswhwere executable.

https://github.com/microsoft/vswhere/releases/tag/3.1.7

[Karlovsky120]

Why isn't the newest version in this repository?

Either way, I've downloaded the linked version and ran it with the provided arguments. It doesn't return an error, but it doesn't return anything else either.

I've tried running it as is and as an administrator with the same results.

[matkoch]

Why isn't the newest version in this repository?

Because there's no reason to.

Thanks for checking the command.

[Karlovsky120]

Because there's no reason to.

Fair enough.

Feel free to notify me if I can help any other way!