detect the presence of the Visual Studio(any edition,any version)

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i have created an setup.exe,which can be distributable.it has some dependency on visual studio and it can run on any version or edition of visual studio.

so i want to know how to check programmatically whether any version/any edition of visual studio is present on the system or not,if not i will install my dependencies on my own.
can some one please give me some idea to do this .......

Posted 7-Jun-12 21:04pm

subrata kumar Nayak

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Albert Holguin 8-Jun-12 11:17am

What's your dependency? Why would your application be dependent on Visual Studio?

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Manas Bhardwaj · Answer 1 · 2012-06-07T21:07:00

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Look at this:

http://www.mztools.com/articles/2008/MZ2008003.aspx[^]

Posted 7-Jun-12 21:07pm

Manas Bhardwaj

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subrata kumar Nayak 8-Jun-12 3:16am

thanks for the reply, but i have already gone through the link,it helps to find the current version of existing VS.
But i want to find whether visual studio is present of not...