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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.
vswhere.exe is automatically included in Visual Studio 2017 and later, or you can download it from the vswhere releases page. Use vswhere -? to get help information about the tool. For example, this command shows all releases of Visual Studio, including earlier versions of the product and prereleases, and outputs the results in JSON format:
This means that vswhere will be located at %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\vswhere.exe no matter what options the user chose on the Visual Studio installer or MSBuild Tools installer.
1. The error you're encountering is likely due to a missing or improperly configured C++ build tools on your system, which are required for building some Python packages from source. You can download Microsoft Build Tools for Visual Studio from the official Microsoft website. During installation, make sure to select the "C++ build tools" workload.
vswhere is included with the installer as of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.2 and later, and can be found at the following location: %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\vswhere.exe.
Starting in the latest preview release of Visual Studio version 15.2 (26418.1-Preview), you can now find vswhere installed in “%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer” (on 32-bit operating systems before Windows 10, you should use “%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer”).
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.