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Title: Get Visual Studio 2005 installation path. Language: C#
Description: A static function to get installation path for Visual Studio 2005 Views: 133
Author: Kedar Kakade Date Added: 5/10/2008
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1/// <summary>
2        /// Gets the Visual Studio 2005 installation directory path.
3        /// </summary>
4        /// <returns>Visual Studio 2005 installation directory path</returns>
5        public static string GetVS8InstallDirectory()
6        {
7            string vsInstallationPath;
8
9            RegistryKey regKey = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(@"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Setup\VS");
10            vsInstallationPath = regKey.GetValue("ProductDir").ToString();
11            regKey.Close();
12
13            return vsInstallationPath;
14        }