How To Detect Installed Games On A System
Nov 26, 2009
I am writing a application where i need to know which games are installed on a system.I have 3 ways by which i think i can detect the games
1: Scan specific parts of registry and look for key names that match with a List of Publishers. The list is manually maintained.
2: Scan the hard disk for and do same as in step 1
3: run the program in background and check for programs in memory that use a large portion of memory(which games always do) and if they use Direct X ( Which all games do except for some) then its a game.
Now i have been thinking about it and first and second method seems to be in need of a updated database ie list of publishers to make out if a particular program is game.
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Nov 18, 2010
I wanna detect the version of installed Visual Basic Power Packs in target system.How can I do it with Registry values (Windows from Win XP)?Or, How can I check the version of Visual Basic Power Packs assembly , e.g : how I can check the version of Microsoft.VisualBasic.PowerPacks assembly ?
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Mar 8, 2011
I just want to ask if what is better to do, if I want to detect a certain program that uses cheat? Do I need to use a Process to kill or GetModuleHandle?, and give me some advice and some simple codes or hard core samples, for me to analyze what is the best way...
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Nov 13, 2010
but i can't complete it if i dont know how to make it auto detecting the pathsexample: i have a combobox and only the text COD 4 MWand i have a textbox so when they select COD 4 MW in the combobox the install path shows in the textbox.
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Aug 26, 2011
I have created an app using Visual Studio 2010. This app wont work with Win XP or earlier. So how to detect the installed OS?
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Jan 30, 2010
I know the default install path of the app and the name of the .exe file, but is there a way to see if it is actually installed? I've seen suggestions for checking registry entries, but I don't know if this app uses any or if if varies for different users on different pc's.
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Feb 17, 2011
I have built a web setup project using VS 2008, wherein I need to check whether IIS 6.0 Metabase compatibility is installed. I tried it by accessing registry keys specifed in here in custom actions. But when I run the installer, I the key comes out to be blank irrespective of whether metabase compatibility is installed.
To further check the problem, I created a Console app to access the same keys. When I run it on win7, the app fails. Then, I ran it in WinXP SP3 compatibility mode and it ran perfectly.
I am open to other bullet-proof means of detecting whether IIS 6.0 Metabase compatibility is installed
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Oct 6, 2010
How to programmatically detect 32-bit or 64-bit visio version is installed?
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Nov 24, 2009
I currently connect to a MySQL database using the ODBC MySQL 5.1 Connector, how would I be able to detect if the driver is installed before a connection attempt?
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Jun 16, 2009
I have created a class which builds a Crystal report and displays it in a report viewer. However, without the Crystal Redistributable, the code crashes. How can I programatically detect whether the end-user has the Crystal DLL installed? The code I am required to include is:
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Feb 12, 2010
I'm looking on the Internet but not found anything about how to detect what the frameworks are installed. Someone I can provide that code to VB. Net? TcoUpLoad (work with Vb6 and VbNet)
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Jan 6, 2011
I want to start a new project, an application to detect drivers installed and not installed.
can someone give me some details about how can be checked, what codes i need to retrieve.
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Dec 22, 2009
how to detect if MSXML parser is installed on a machine or not. I looked for a registry entry,but unable to get one. I am writing a VB.NET application.
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Oct 3, 2011
I have a WinForm program developed in VB.Net with Visual Studio 2005. The program needs Microsoft Office Runtime installed atleast on the computer to allow the application to run without any errors.
Is their a way to check the computer to see if the minimum of the Runtime or Microsoft Office is installed on the computer? If either isn't I would like to display a message to the user on the startup of the application that states to atleast go to Microsot's site (I have full link to Runtime Download) and download the runtime for free.
Or is their a way to include the runtime as a component with my install for the application so if it isn't installed on the computer already it will install when the application is installed?
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Apr 6, 2011
I want to write a simple program, which should inform me before any files getting open (like as User account control in Windows Vista or Windows 7). I came to know that all antiviruses use this technique to detect viruses before they are affecting the system. My program must ask me as "Are you allow this file to run?" and allow it if I allow otherwise terminate the file.
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May 15, 2009
I want to know if the .net framework is installed on the system if it is not installed on the system then i would like to give a message to the user about it and exit my application. The problem is if the frame work is not installed on the system the application doesn't even starts.
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Jul 18, 2011
I have a dll installed on my machine and want to find a way to verify this programatically with VB.Net. I have been trying to use LoadLibrary but it always returns a zero. Can someone provide a code snippet of how I might do this?
Also, if there is another way to verify that a dll is installed, without having to supply a full path, please let me know.
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Jul 26, 2010
I have to access the active x dll which is installed on my system from VB.net.
I added as reference and followed all the steps as given in I have declared private mycomponent as activexcomponent.libclass and i gave constructor for this i.e. creating the object for this class in the constructor of the main form as mycomponet = new activexcomponent.libclass()
Then the following expection is coming when i tried to run the program.
System.InvalidOperationException: An
error occurred creating the form. See
Exception.InnerException for details.
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Dec 15, 2009
Is there an easy way to get a list of the installed web browsers on the system (including the path to their respective .exe)? I have a web application which uses the Web Browser Control, but I would like to give the user the ability to view their web page in any of their other installed browsers.
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Nov 19, 2009
I am having trouble developing an asp.net page. I can create custom collections and use them in win apps, but when i reference the system.collections namespace, the page response hangs up. No exception info is passed back or anything. The page just freezes. Is this a common problem. I am wondering if its due to the assembly not being present (but am unsure why an exception wouldn't indicate this.).
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Mar 16, 2010
I am using Visual Basic 2008 express and I have created a simple database application for my y6 pupils. The program will eventually be installed on the school system but, i want to know how I can ask vb to find which folder the application was installed in and get it to return a string. Does anyone know how to do this??
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Feb 4, 2010
Getting follwoing error while installing ClickOnce VB.net application"
"the application requires that assembly System.Net Version 3.5.0.0 be installed on GAC"
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Jun 22, 2009
I wana check outlook versions (from 97 to 2007) installed on system.how can do that in vb.net..
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Jul 8, 2009
I am trying to create a plugin system. I have the actual plugins working fine but now I want to implement a system that knows whether the plugin is installed or not. I can get the plugin name when the form is loaded (ex. "Plugin1"). I then want to check this against something to see if that specific plugin is already there (if not add it) and if it is there is it enabled. I was thinking of doing this with an xml file but thought that might be a lot of work reading and writing each value. I then thought of the My.Settings and was wondering if this is possible. I would want to create an "element" for the name and give it a value of either true or false.
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Jun 13, 2011
This app will allow user to select a file, folder or an installed application and then assign it a hotkey...My question is how can I get the complete path of a file, folder, or application in vb like in many application the browse button shows the complete path in a textbox, and then how this app will allow user to assign it a hotkey? And how am I going to save the path and hotkey in a database?
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Jun 13, 2011
Record keyboard inputs to open applications. This feature will allow users to assign hotkeys to
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Nov 23, 2009
I'm working on a program (Under Visual Basic .NET 2008) that draws text on a PictureBox using a font that is already installed (registered) in system fonts. I'm wondering how can I perform the same but with a font that is not already installed on system, by adding this font file (*.ttf usually) to my solution explorer and use it in my program, given that this font file must be included in exe file.
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Apr 19, 2012
Question: How do I programmatically determine which provider to use (Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0 vs Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0) when my app runs as a 32-bit process on a machine with Office x64 installed?
I'm developing a VB.net WinForms app in VS 2010 and targeting both x86 and x64.The app processes data from xls, xlsx, mdb and accdb files using System.Data.OleDb:Dim oConn As OleDbConnection = New OleDbConnection("Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=...")
The x64 version of the program works as expected. The x86 version works as expected on a system with Office x86.When I run the x86 version on a machine with Office 2010 x64, I get the following exception when trying to open a connection:
The 'Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0' provider is not registered on the local machine.I believe this is because I'm running Office 2010 x64 so the x86 data access components are not installed.I can get it to work for Office 2003 files (*.mdb and *.xls) by changing the provider to Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0.
How do I figure out which provider to use when running as a 32-bit process on a machine with Office x64 installed?Ideally, I'd like a function:If ProviderIsAvailableFor("Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0") Then
Else If ProviderIsAvailableFor("Microsoft.JET.OLEDB.4.0") Then
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Sep 5, 2010
Detect system shut down?
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Jul 2, 2011
I would like to know how to detect if a persons operating system is Windows 7, I'm a bit new and have no idea how to do this.
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