Programmatically finding the VS2017 installation directory

Question

With previous versions of VS you could query the registry to determine the installation directory for VS:

HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\Visu

Answer 1

See following answer in here:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/55754831/2338477

You can use either command line tool for querying Visual studio location, but I also provide programmatic way to query Visual Studio location. Code is based upon vswhere source code, but simplified.