Vswhere.exe (CloudMonk.io)

vswhere.exe

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https://github.com/Microsoft/vswhere/wiki/Installing

Starting with Visual Studio 15.2 (26418.1 Preview) vswhere.exe is installed in %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer (use %ProgramFiles% in a 32-bit program prior to Windows 10). This is a fixed location that will be maintained.

If you cannot rely on Visual Studio being installed or want to support older versions before vswhere.exe was installed by default, there are a number of options currently available to download or install vswhere.exe.

choco install vswhere

Microsoft Visual Studio: Visual Studio 2025, Visual Studio 2022, Visual Studio 2019, Visual Studio 2017, Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio 2013, Install Visual Studio (brew install visualstudio, choco install visualstudio2022community, Visual Studio Extensions, Visual Studio Marketplace, GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio, vswhere.exe, Visual Studio Build Tools, GitHub Visual Studio, Awesome Visual Studio. (navbar_visual_studio - see also navbar_vscode)

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