Consider respecting MSBUILD_EXE_PATH

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp
Domain
build-system

Research direction

The issue names MSBUILD_EXE_PATH and the MSBuild location behavior but does not identify files, tests, or an entry point. First determine where MSBuild is located and how that environment variable affects loading; done means defining and validating the intended behavior when the located MSBuild would conflict with it.

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Description

MSBuild internally changes behavior if MSBUILD_EXE_PATH is set; we should consider proactively changing the located MSBuild if we see it and it would break upon loading the one we would otherwise locate.

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