C# Setup Project for Windows Applicaiton - Default Location

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I'm a beginner. I have recently developed an application in C#. Now I wanna develop its setup. I would like to change programmatically the Default Location of the program, I mean that I would like to set the default location to the location of a program previously installed on the client machine. However I don't know what is the installation path of this other program, so I have to find it programmatically in the registry with a custom action, but I'm not able to launch a custom action before the Installation dir has been already set to the default one.

Is there someone that could help me?

Posted 18-Jun-13 5:37am

Sara Noemi

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 18-Jun-13 12:14pm

What are you using for the setup project?
—SA

Sara Noemi 19-Jun-13 3:13am

I'm using Visual Studio 2008

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muneebalikiyani · Answer 1 · 2013-06-18T18:44:00

The ideal way to find a program's installation path is to read it from the registry.Installers usually create a registry key for programs that contains their installation path.

To find if the program has a key in the registry, open "regedit.exe" and use the Edit , after that Find option to try and locate a key with the program name. If such a key exists, you can read it using the RegistryKey class in the .NET Framework library.

If the program does not have a registry key then another option is just to ask the user to locate the .exe file with the OpenFileDialog, although this is obviously not ideal.

Hope that will help, Please mark as answer.

muneebalikiyani · Answer 2 · 2013-06-18T23:56:00

Solution 2

Hope this thread will solve the custom action problem you are facing
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Posted 18-Jun-13 23:56pm

muneebalikiyani