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.NET Forum / .NET Framework / .NET SDK / November 2006How do I tell if .NET 2.0 is installed
Hi; 1) From our setup program (in C++) how can I tell if .NET is installed? 2) Is there a url we can then redirect them to which will show the .NET selection to download & install? We have trouble with using the Windows Update page because the .NET install is an optional install and therefore is not displayed. You would be surprised at the number of our customers that when we explain this discover all these optional updates that they have no idea even existed. 3) How can we tell if the .NET language pack for the user's language is installed - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=39C8B63B-F64B-4B68-A774 -B64ED0C32AE7&displaylang=en 4) And again, is there a url we can use that takes them to the download for their language?  Signaturethanks - dave david_at_windward_dot_net http://www.windwardreports.com Cubicle Wars - http://www.windwardreports.com/film.htm Hi Dave, Thanks for the posting. 1) You should query registry keys or .net 2.0 files/directories. For example, the version 2.0 key under: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{7D23CCC6-A390-406E-AB67-2F8B7558F6F6}\InprocServer3 2 2) If your installation application is aware that the client machine doesn't have .net 2.0 installed, the installation should prompt to install the redistributable package. You may include the file in your installation package instead of using an URL. Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0 Redistributable Package (x86) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0856EACB-4362-4B0D- 8EDD-AAB15C5E04F5&displaylang=en 3) The same as #1. Querying registry to verify if language pack is installed should be a common way of this. 4) Same as #2. Why not include the file in your installation CD? As an example, many computer games will prompt to install DirectX if they detect required DX version isn't installed. Have a good weekend. Sincerely, WenJun Zhang Microsoft Online Community Support ================================================== Get notification to my posts through email? Please refer to: http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/managednewsgroups/default.aspx#notif ications. Note: The MSDN Managed Newsgroup support offering is for non-urgent issues where an initial response from the community or a Microsoft Support Engineer within 1 business day is acceptable. Please note that each follow up response may take approximately 2 business days as the support professional working with you may need further investigation to reach the most efficient resolution. The offering is not appropriate for situations that require urgent, real-time or phone-based interactions or complex project analysis and dump analysis issues. Issues of this nature are best handled working with a dedicated Microsoft Support Engineer by contacting Microsoft Customer Support Services (CSS) at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/support/default.aspx. ================================================== This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Hi; We don't ship a CD - we distribute over the web. So we prefer a url so they don't have to download a gigantic file that most won't need. That url you listed looks good for that. What do we check in the registry for the language support being installed? Signaturethanks - dave david_at_windward_dot_net http://www.windwardreports.com Cubicle Wars - http://www.windwardreports.com/film.htm > Hi Dave, > [quoted text clipped - 52 lines] > > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Hi Dave, You can check the keys like: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Micro soft .NET Framework 2.0 Language Pack - [lang] or query the values under: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\Folde rs to verify if the Language Pack is installed. Thanks. Sincerely, WenJun Zhang Microsoft Online Community Support ================================================== Get notification to my posts through email? Please refer to: http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/managednewsgroups/default.aspx#notif ications. Note: The MSDN Managed Newsgroup support offering is for non-urgent issues where an initial response from the community or a Microsoft Support Engineer within 1 business day is acceptable. Please note that each follow up response may take approximately 2 business days as the support professional working with you may need further investigation to reach the most efficient resolution. The offering is not appropriate for situations that require urgent, real-time or phone-based interactions or complex project analysis and dump analysis issues. Issues of this nature are best handled working with a dedicated Microsoft Support Engineer by contacting Microsoft Customer Support Services (CSS) at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/support/default.aspx. ================================================== This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Hi; This is great. One last question. For Spanish it is - ESN and I would have assumed it was - ES for Spanish. Is there a listing anywhere of what to look for for each language or do I need to have someone here install them all so we can look in the registry? Signaturethanks - dave david_at_windward_dot_net http://www.windwardreports.com Cubicle Wars - http://www.windwardreports.com/film.htm > Hi Dave, > [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] > > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Hi Dave, I think it follows the Language Codes in the following page. You may install serveral different language versions to verify this. http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/d3557cbf-8d1b-431f-8b 50-0a4d7c9d95081033.mspx?mfr=true Let me know if you have further question. Thanks. Sincerely, WenJun Zhang Microsoft Online Community Support ================================================== Get notification to my posts through email? Please refer to: http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/managednewsgroups/default.aspx#notif ications. Note: The MSDN Managed Newsgroup support offering is for non-urgent issues where an initial response from the community or a Microsoft Support Engineer within 1 business day is acceptable. Please note that each follow up response may take approximately 2 business days as the support professional working with you may need further investigation to reach the most efficient resolution. The offering is not appropriate for situations that require urgent, real-time or phone-based interactions or complex project analysis and dump analysis issues. Issues of this nature are best handled working with a dedicated Microsoft Support Engineer by contacting Microsoft Customer Support Services (CSS) at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/support/default.aspx. ================================================== This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Nope - not it. That page shows SPA for Spanish while the registry entry shows ESN. I guess we have to install them all to find out. MS really should document this. Signaturethanks - dave david_at_windward_dot_net http://www.windwardreports.com Cubicle Wars - http://www.windwardreports.com/film.htm > Hi Dave, > [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. > Nope - not it. That page shows SPA for Spanish while the registry entry shows > ESN. I guess we have to install them all to find out. MS really should > document this. ESN is the ISO 639 standard... the first 2 letters will usually give you the language and the third letter will give you the variant... so ENU is the US version of English (EN for English and U for USA). There is usually an umbrella (generic) language as well - so FR can be used for French whereas if you want the specific dialect for France you'd use FRA. Do a hunt on google of ISO 639 if you want a full list. Best Regards, James Crosswell Microforge.net LLC http://www.microforge.net >> Nope - not it. That page shows SPA for Spanish while the registry >> entry shows ESN. I guess we have to install them all to find out. MS [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Do a hunt on google of ISO 639 if you want a full list. Hm, looks like I might be completely wrong about that. Here's the list of 639 codes: http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php ESN doesn't feature in there at all. They have ES and SPA for Spanish. Although this hardly looks like a complete list of all the dialects of spanish, so perhaps Microsoft area basing their language codes on a different ISO standard. You'll probably find this info documented in the visual studio help files - have you looked/searched the help files for info on localization? Best Regards, James Crosswell Microforge.net LLC http://www.microforge.net > Nope - not it. That page shows SPA for Spanish while the registry entry shows > ESN. I guess we have to install them all to find out. MS really should > document this. OK, maybe this one is more useful: http://tinyurl.com/yyg9a3 See the table at the end of the document. Looks like it comes from MFC. Best Regards, James Crosswell Microforge.net LLC http://www.microforge.net thank you. I think we still have to install each and check because I would have assumed Mexico for the spanish default (largest population). Better safe than sorry. Once we get all of them I'll post so others don't have to do this. (It annoys me that MS doesn't document stuff like this.) Signaturethanks - dave david_at_windward_dot_net http://www.windwardreports.com Cubicle Wars - http://www.windwardreports.com/film.htm > > Nope - not it. That page shows SPA for Spanish while the registry entry shows > > ESN. I guess we have to install them all to find out. MS really should [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Microforge.net LLC > http://www.microforge.net This is the official way, follow the links for sample C++. http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2005/09/01/459708.aspx SignaturePhil Wilson [Microsoft MVP Windows Installer] > Hi; > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > for > their language? Hi; The link on your page http://astebner.sts.winisp.net/Tools/detectFX.cpp.txt doesn't work. Is that a temporary glitch? Also, any chance you know how to test for which language packs are installed? Signaturethanks - dave david_at_windward_dot_net http://www.windwardreports.com Cubicle Wars - http://www.windwardreports.com/film.htm > This is the official way, follow the links for sample C++. > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > for > > their language? Well it's not my page, but it does seem to be working now. SignaturePhil Wilson [Microsoft MVP Windows Installer] > Hi; > [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] >> > for >> > their language?
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