Location of $(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)

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_{Tuesday, January 4, 2011 8:46 PM | 1 vote}

Hello,

Is there anyway I can see where $(MSBuildExtensionsPath42) points to?

I tried echo $(MSBuildExtensionsPath42), echo $MSBuildExtensionsPath42, echo %MSBuildExtensionsPath42%, but it doesn't act like a environment variable like, for instance echo %windir% would.

I also tried searching through the registry, to no avail.

 Thanks,

Eric

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_{Thursday, January 6, 2011 6:54 AM ✅Answered | 1 vote}

Hi,

Please consult your question to MSBuild forum. http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/msbuild/threads/

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Larcolais

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_{Thursday, August 1, 2013 11:37 AM | 12 votes}

Hi Eric,

I just had the same question and found the anwser. It's usually this directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild (on Windows 64 Bit)

or C:\Program Files\MSBuild (on Windows 32 Bit)

Further details: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms164309.aspx

Ralf

_{Thursday, June 12, 2014 9:17 AM | 15 votes}

Hi MSDN support. It's very very stupid to ask OP to resend a new request in a different place. It's not your job make issues goto the close state, OK? You should make the issue really closed, I mean really fixed. The MSDN forum is publicly to everyone, not your Corporation private forum. You guys don't have a correct service attitude.

_{Thursday, June 12, 2014 9:24 AM}

You can set a new enviroment variable for MSBuildExtensionsPath42 and it will really works. The fact is:

If the envvar MSBuildExtensionsPath42 exists, the specified value will be used; Else will use the MSBuild installation folder as its default value.

_{Thursday, December 17, 2015 3:37 PM | 1 vote}

Appropriate thing to do would have been to answer the question, and then direct to the other forum for next time.

_{Monday, March 20, 2017 4:10 PM | 1 vote}

@Larcolais terrible response.  if you linked to a specific thread that answered the question i would understand, but you're basically asking us to dig through an entire forum.

_{Wednesday, August 1, 2018 3:05 PM | 2 votes}

Hi MSDN support. It's very very stupid to ask OP to resend a new request in a different place. It's not your job make issues goto the close state, OK? You should make the issue really closed, I mean really fixed. The MSDN forum is publicly to everyone, not your Corporation private forum. You guys don't have a correct service attitude.

I 100% agree with this statement. This sort of thing is all over the MSDN forums and is why everybody goes to stack overflow instead.

_{Friday, February 22, 2019 12:55 PM}

Need to set MSBuildExtensionsPath42 system variable to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools\MSBuild
Bug: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/465815/msbuildextensionspath42-is-not-added-to-system-var.html