Unable to find MSBuild on hosted runners

The MSBuild dependency step keeps failing.

This is from my GitHub-actions YML file: The host is a Windows_Server-2019 VM on AWS VS flavour installed is Visual Studio 2019 Community Edition with License: Visual Studio Community

- name: Dependency - MSBuild
  uses: microsoft/setup-msbuild@v1.0.1
  with:
    vswhere-path: 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer'  

resulting in the error in the step:

Run microsoft/setup-msbuild@v1.0.1 “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\vswhere.exe” -products * -requires Microsoft.Component.MSBuild -property installationPath -latest ##[error]Unable to find MSBuild.

I did add MSBuild location in the system path variable as well.

What am I missing? Thanks for the consideration

I had asked this originally as a comment on #7

[heaths]

You’re using a different action: warrenbuckley/Setup-MSBuild@v1. You’d need to either replace that with microsoft/setup-msbuild@v1 or file an issue on https://github.com/warrenbuckley/Setup-MSBuild. I may be biased since I was the VS setup architect and wrote vswhere, but I’d recommend this one which @timheuer does a great job of keeping up to date.

[timheuer]

@caibinwav123456 If you are using GitHub’s agents, you don’t need to specify the version flag…as there is only one version of Visual Studio on windows-latest so you’ll get that one. And if you are using the hosted agents, no you don’t have direct access to the machine. If you haven’t used MSBuild locally you may want to familiarize yourself with the commands as you’ll still need to specify them. You can test locally by running msbuild <path-to-your-solution-or-project> and add whatever options you need (configuration, etc.). You can see an example here (although this adds web publishing) https://github.com/timheuer/SimpleFrameworkApp/blob/master/.github/workflows/build.yml#L34