Determine if Microsoft Office Applications are Installed (VB.NET)
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This snippet shows you how to read the registry in .NET to check if a given application is installed. You can easily expand on it to check for other applications by adding more class strings to the enum.
Demo Usage: Debug.WriteLine(IsInstalled(MSApplications.Word))
Instructions: Copy the declarations and code below and paste directly into your VB project.
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