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[jira] [Created] (CB-13887) Use `vswhere` for better Visual Studio and MSBuildTools detection

Jan Piotrowski (Sujan) created CB-13887:
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             Summary: Use `vswhere` for better Visual Studio and MSBuildTools detection
                 Key: CB-13887
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13887
             Project: Apache Cordova
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: cordova-windows
            Reporter: Jan Piotrowski (Sujan)
            Assignee: Jesse MacFadyen


Microsoft added `vswhere` to the default install of Visual Studio 2017:
https://github.com/Microsoft/vswhere
https://github.com/Microsoft/vswhere/wiki/Find-MSBuild
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/tools-for-managing-visual-studio-instances
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/heaths/2017/04/21/vswhere-is-now-installed-with-visual-studio-2017/

We already use it in `appveyor.yml` to debug output these paths for the CI environment. It would be handy to also use this simple command in `MSBuildTools.js` and similar code instead of what is currently there (which is _really_ confusing and party bad).



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