Roslyn crashes when opening a project without Visual Studio version 2017 or higher installed on a machine

[NikiPn]

Version Used:
4.13.0-2.24561.4

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Create a console application and add packages, 'Microsoft.CodeAnalysis' and 'Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Workspaces.MSBuild' (version 4.13.0-2.24561.4).
   The project file will be as follows:

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
 
  <PropertyGroup>
    <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
    <TargetFramework>net472</TargetFramework>
  </PropertyGroup>
    <ItemGroup>
        <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.CodeAnalysis" Version="4.13.0-2.24561.4" />
        <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Workspaces.MSBuild" Version="4.13.0-2.24561.4" />
  </ItemGroup>
 
</Project>

2. Add this code fragment to the 'Main' method:

var workspace = MSBuildWorkspace.Create();
_ = workspace.OpenSolutionAsync("D:\\ MySolution.sln").Result;

3. Create a console app in a project templates for Visual Studio 2015. Open the project using the program created above.

Expected Behavior:
No exception.

Actual Behavior:
Exception is thrown:

Unhandled Exception: System.AggregateException: One or more errors occurred. ---> System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified
  at System.Diagnostics.Process.StartWithCreateProcess(ProcessStartInfo startInfo)
  at System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(ProcessStartInfo startInfo)
  at Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.MSBuild.BuildHostProcessManager.<GetBuildHostAsync>d__9.MoveNext()
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
  at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
  at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
  at Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.MSBuild.BuildHostProcessManager.<GetBuildHostWithFallbackAsync>d__8.MoveNext()
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
  at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
....

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This information may help you: MSBuildLocator can successfully register MSBuild for Visual Studio 2015.

MSBuildLocator.RegisterMSBuildPath(@"C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\Bin");