[CB-6083] [windows8] Use registry to read msbuild tools path

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: cordova-windows
• Assignee: Jesse MacFadyen
• Reporter: Sergey Grebnov
• Created: 21/Feb/14 14:00
• Updated: 23/Aug/18 06:59
• Resolved: 22/Feb/14 05:20

Description

Right now we require to have 'msbuild' tools folder in the path. But we can retrieve tools location from registry
REG QUERY HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSBuild\ToolsVersions\12.0\ /v MSBuildToolsPath Will return the path for VS 2013 (msbuild 12.0)

REG QUERY HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSBuild\ToolsVersions\4.0\ /v MSBuildToolsPath Will return the path for VS 2012 (msbuild 4.0)

Issue Links

• is related to: CB-6039 [windows8] Add test that correct msbuild version is in the path