Getting closer to identifying why setuptools doesn't see the build tools

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@@ -6,20 +6,6 @@ FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/framework/sdk:4.8-windowsservercore-ltsc2019
 # Download the Build Tools bootstrapper.
 ADD https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vs_buildtools.exe vs_buildtools.exe
 
-# Install Visual Studio
-RUN ./vs_buildtools.exe --quiet --wait --norestart --nocache \
- --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.CoreEditor \
- --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.CoreEditor \
- --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Roslyn.Compiler \
- --add Microsoft.Component.MSBuild \
- --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.TextTemplating \
- --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.CoreIde \
- --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.Tools.x86.x64 \
- --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Windows10SDK.19041 \
- --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.Redist.14.Latest \
- --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.ComponentGroup.NativeDesktop.Core \
- --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NativeDesktop
-
 # Install chocolatey
 RUN powershell -c "Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iwr https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1 -UseBasicParsing | iex"
 RUN choco feature enable -n allowGlobalConfirmation
@@ -41,4 +27,23 @@ RUN cmd /c 'certutil -generateSSTFromWU roots.sst && certutil -addstore -f root
 
 RUN setx TOX_WORK_DIR \tox
 
+# Install Visual Studio
+RUN cmd /c start /w vs_buildtools --quiet --wait --norestart --nocache modify \
+ --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.CoreEditor \
+ --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.CoreEditor \
+ --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Roslyn.Compiler \
+ --add Microsoft.Component.MSBuild \
+ --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.TextTemplating \
+ --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.CoreIde \
+ --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.Tools.x86.x64 \
+ --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Windows10SDK.19041 \
+ --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.Redist.14.Latest \
+ --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.ComponentGroup.NativeDesktop.Core \
+ --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NativeDesktop \
+ --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.WDExpress
+
+RUN & \"${env:programfiles(x86)}\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\vswhere.exe\" -latest -prerelease -requiresAny -property installationPath -products *
+
+RUN py -c 'from setuptools import msvc; print(msvc._msvc14_find_vc2017())'
+
 ENTRYPOINT ["powershell.exe", "-NoLogo", "-ExecutionPolicy", "Bypass"]