How to unstall a applicaiton with c#

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Hi,
How can I unstall a applicaiton with c#

 

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Sorry!
I mean uninstall.

When you say "unstall" do you mean "install" or "uninstall"...?

 

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Thanks,
I want to uninstall programs wich registerd in windows

[top-posting corrected]

Sorry!
I mean uninstall.

Can you explain a bit more about what you're trying to do...

Are you saying that you've created an application in C# and want to know
how to create an installation / uninstallation routine for it...?

Or are you saying that you want to uninstall other applications with
C#...?

 

[Marcin Hoppe]

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I want to uninstall programs wich registerd in windows

Windows ships with a command line utility called msiexec. You can read
about its syntax here:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490936.aspx

After you have figured oout how to solve your problem from the command
line, you can start msiexec from C# code using
System.Diagnostics.Process class.

Best regards!

 

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I have find the usage of msiexec.

We can use msiexec /x to uninstall program.

But msiexec /x must followed with package.

How can I uninstall the programs registered in the "add/move program" of
control panel?

 

[Marcin Hoppe]

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How can I uninstall the programs registered in the "add/move program" of
control panel?

How do you know which program do you want to uninstall? I assume that
you have a name that is displayed in the Add or Remove Programs applet?

It turns out that you can read the entire uninstall command from Windows
registry (this will also work for applications that were not created
with Windows Installer compatible installation tools).

You should programmatically search all the registry keys under:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Uninstall

When you find a key, whose value DisplayName matches name of the
application you want to uninstall, read the value UninstallString from
the same registry key and start command described by this value using
System.Diagnostics.Process class.

Best regards!