Get application folder of application installed

[Alhambra Eidos Desarrollo]

Hi anyone,



I have installed an Windows Forms Application (developed using VS 2005). My
application appears in Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs. The path can be
default path or if the user changes will be another path.



now, I have another application .net and I want to get the application
folder (full path) of my Windows Forms Application. Only, I know the name of
my application (product name like it appears in Control panel -> Add/Remove
Programs)



Any suggestions, please? Sample code source very helpful





Thanks in advanced, greetings

 

[Ciaran O''Donnell]

You can write a particular registry key when you install the first program or
if that is done already, you can access the path from the registry key that
add/remove programs uses. If you know the application global id then it will
be the name of a subkey of
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
If you dont know that then you will need to look at the DisplayName item in
each of the subkeys in turn to find the one you are looking for, then you can
read the InstallLocation item which will have the install folder.

 

[Duggi]

You can write a particular registry key when you install the first program or
if that is done already, you can access the path from the registry key that
add/remove programs uses. If you know the application global id then it will
be the name of a subkey of
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
If you dont know that then you will need to look at the DisplayName item in
each of the subkeys in turn to find the one you are looking for, then youcan
read the InstallLocation item which will have the install folder.

This is the standard approach..

-Cnu