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hsteinbeck
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‎Jan 23, 2009 12:43 PM

Find Visual Studio version

What's your favorite way to find the latest version of Visual Studio installed?

I must have at least VS2008 SP1 installed.
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hsteinbeck
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‎Jan 23, 2009 05:55 PM

I am pretty sure the “SP” value in this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\DevDiv\VS\Servicing\9.0
holds the service pack level for Visual Studio 2008.

Which is nice because I can use a “greater than” condition to support this service pack and all future service packs without having to modify my installer.

If anyone thinks this is a bad idea to use this key for the purpose of identifying VS2008 SP level please speak up.

references:
http://younsi.blogspot.com/2007/12/how-to-detecting-if-visual-studio-2005.html

http://msmvps.com/blogs/carlosq/archive/2008/12/10/the-strange-case-of-visual-studio-2008-severely-crashing-loading-an-add-in.aspx
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hsteinbeck
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‎Jan 26, 2009 12:59 PM

Hmmmm… There is a fly in the ointment, or should I say #

No bother, the board comes through once again:

http://community.acresso.com/showthread.php?t=129811
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