how to detect which VS 2010 Edition or SKU

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Hello all,
I have an requirement, for which VS 2010 Ultimate or VS 2010 Test professional is a pre-requisite. Using WIX can we detect which edition of VS2010 is installed?
One thing I found is in windows registry if VS2010 is installed we have this key
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Setup\Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate - ENU"
Similarly if VS 2010 professional is installed we have

"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Setup\Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional - ENU"

Is this the only way to find or is there any better way of finding which edition of VS2010 is installed

Thanks in advance,
Kiran

Posted 25-Jul-12 19:07pm

Kiran Susarla

Updated 25-Jul-12 19:22pm

Prasad_Kulkarni

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Jim Jos 26-Jul-12 1:38am

This the best and easy way to find out. Using Registry element in wix we could find out or using the library Microsoft.Win32 we could get all the software installed in the machine from C# itself..

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barneyman · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-25T19:45:00

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I'd be more inclined to use AppSearch and find the component guid for each flavour of vs2010

Posted 25-Jul-12 19:45pm

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Kiran Susarla 27-Jul-12 0:40am

Hello Barneyman,
Thanks for your answer. From your answer searched in MSDN and found this link
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb164659.aspx
This link clearly states which edition of VS2010 is installed.

Thanks,
Kiran