dotnet / dotnet/msbuild

Confusing error when trying to run build.cmd without VS installed

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Description

### Issue Description

The error when attempting to run build.cmd from a freshly-downloaded and extracted zip of msbuild is confusing.

### Expected Behavior

Tell me to download VS.

### Actual Behavior

`Exception calling "Start" with "0" argument(s): "The system cannot find the file specified"`

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