ID 309669 - Launching Nuke 11.0v1 without having installed a previous version of Nuke on Windows results in "error interpreting this plugin"

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Problem summary
Launching Nuke 11.0v1 without having installed a previous version of Nuke on Windows results in  "error interpreting this plugin"

Customer reported version
nuke.11.0v2

Customer reported platform
n_a_windows

Steps to reproduce
1) On an installation that has not had a previous version of Nuke installed, install Nuke 11.0v1
Note: If Visual Studio 2010 has been installed by another application, the error may not occur.
2) Launch Nuke
Result: Error interpreting this plugin error.

Workaround
Install Nuke 10.5v5 or older version, then launch 11.

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Expected behaviour
Launch as expected.

Actual behaviour
Fails to launch, erroring with "path/to/plugins/init.py: error interpreting this plugin."
 

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