Lost Password?

Go Back   CodeCall Programming Forum > Software Development > Software Development Tools

Software Development Tools Tools to help encrypt, install or anything else for Software Development

Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Search this Thread Display Modes
  #1 (permalink)  
Old 02-10-2007, 06:54 AM
IUnknown IUnknown is offline
Newbie
 
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 2
Rep Power: 0
IUnknown is on a distinguished road
Default Get installed software information

Hi, can anyone please help me?

I am working on a program for retrieving information on installed
software on a local machine, I use MsiGetProductInfo and other
windows installer API-s to retrieve the very data I need,
but using these msi apis I retrieve only the data for the
software installed by Windows installer, most of the software I need
is installed with InstallShield, how can I retrieve these
software information, installed with InstallShield ?

Take for example, I have ,let's say, Visual Studio 6.0, now I need
to programmaticaly get information on that product, like full name, vendor
name, product id, etc. I have no information on that product in the system
registry SOFTWARE key, neither any information in the msi database( via
using MsiGetProductInfo ) as this software was installed with InstallShield,
now can I have access to the InstallShield database and if so how?

Will be very grateful if any suggestions.

Thanks.
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiFurl this Post!
Reply With Quote

Sponsored Links
  #2 (permalink)  
Old 02-10-2007, 04:30 PM
IUnknown IUnknown is offline
Newbie
 
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 2
Rep Power: 0
IUnknown is on a distinguished road
Default

Well, kinda funny, answering my own posts, but however..
It comes there is no seporate databases or kinda messy things like that,
msi API -s are just simplified way of woking with the registry, all of the information on the installed products is kept there, but those not coming with Windows Installer are sometimes located under various keys, not under the ones they should logicaly be.
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiFurl this Post!
Reply With Quote
  #3 (permalink)  
Old 02-10-2007, 05:27 PM
techni68 techni68 is offline
Programming Professional
 
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 230
Rep Power: 8
techni68 is on a distinguished road
Default

Glad you answered your own question..because if any of us run into this issue we will know what to do. Thanks.
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiFurl this Post!
Reply With Quote
  #4 (permalink)  
Old 06-29-2007, 02:27 PM
hoser2001's Avatar   
hoser2001 hoser2001 is offline
Programmer
 
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 175
Rep Power: 9
hoser2001 is on a distinguished road
Default

There are two locations where you find information on installed software:
MSI Installed & Normal Installed.

I can't remember if this information is only accessible through the registry, or if you could use WMI to get it.
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiFurl this Post!
Reply With Quote
  #5 (permalink)  
Old 10-11-2007, 06:38 AM
Patrick Patrick is offline
Programmer
 
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 100
Rep Power: 4
Patrick is on a distinguished road
Default

I think MSI is a win32 application. What about CGI files will it not interrupt MSI extension functioning if they exists in that folder because I faced such problem before also.
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiFurl this Post!
Reply With Quote

Sponsored Links
  #6 (permalink)  
Old 10-15-2007, 06:29 PM
slattery9 slattery9 is offline
Newbie
 
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 1
Rep Power: 0
slattery9 is on a distinguished road
Default location of product code

I don't mean to crash your forum but I landed here on a search. My question is, how can I find my software product code for a program I installed 2 years ago. I have a new computer, the old computer, and the original disk but not the original label with the 25character code? I figure it's in there somewhere. Thank you.
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiFurl this Post!
Reply With Quote
Reply



Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Software Dungeon bungman Shareware Sites 10 08-21-2008 06:45 AM
Creating Software and Graphic Interfaces Question idontknow87 General Programming 14 08-24-2007 05:35 AM
A open source software group twitch Community Projects 2 06-13-2007 10:49 AM
Getting Hardware Information Guitar22891 Visual Basic Programming 1 05-09-2007 02:08 PM
Advertisment-Support Software Ronin Marketing 11 10-04-2006 06:49 PM


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 01:08 AM.

Contest Stats

John ........ 223.00000
dargueta ........ 168.00000
Xav ........ 164.00000
LogicKills ........ 20.00000
gaylo565 ........ 18.00000
WingedPanther ........ 15.00000
|pH| ........ 15.00000
Johnnyboy ........ 3.00000
navghost ........ 1.00000

Contest Rules

CodeCall Goal

Goal: 100,000 Posts
Complete: 67%

Ads