Updating the last vsvars32.ps1 you'll ever need for x64

I've been using Chris Tavares' ultimate vsvars32.ps1 in my powershell start-up script pretty much since it was first posted. But of course, it shows its age in that it assumes you're running 32-bit, given the registry path it uses.

Now, you can hard-code based on your hardware, or assume that anything you're using nowadays is 64-bit (except, of course, when you explicitly run the x86 version of powershell); and there are various ways of detecting current bit-ness. But the simplest way of doing things is to take the behaviour-driven style of detection used as standard in JavaScript and just write

	$key = "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\" + $version
	$VsKey = get-ItemProperty $key
	if (-not $VsKey)
	{
	$key = "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\" + $version
	$VsKey = get-ItemProperty $key
	}

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or reversing the order of the two registry keys to taste.

There are of course alternative ways of getting the path we're eventually aiming at e.g. via environment variable like VS###COMNTOOLS where the ### is a number like 90, 100 or, nowadays, 110, depending on VS version.