Good Day Folks,
I was wondering if anyone knew how to access the list of programs in the Add/Remove Programs list as well as initiate the uninstallation of some software listed there, using VB.NET 2002
Any help, pointers, guidance is appreciated
Thanks,
Chris
Access Add/Remove programs in Control Panel
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Access Add/Remove programs in Control Panel
lazy j
The list is obtained from the registry under HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall. This is list is actually filtered by the program but otherwise all the info is there. If you retrieve the UninstallString value then this is the command that you'd run. I'm not aware of a programmatic way to retrieve this list.
Michael Taylor - 4/18/06
sabo
Michael,
This should be exactly what i need to be able to programatically uninstall software. I already have the methods to traverse the registry to look for strings.
This thread from another forum got me started.
http://72.14.203.104/search q=cache:IQtTqKNunXoJ:www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Programming_Languages/Dot_Net/VB_DOT_NET/Q_21141545.html+vb.net+search+through+registry&hl=en&gl=ca&ct=clnk&cd=9&client=firefox-a
Thank you,
Chris Nickel