Determine installed VS language version

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Mirko Matytschak - 25 Jan 2006 15:27 GMT

Hi all,

does anybody has an idea of how to programmatically determine the VS 2005
language version? I need to know the culture of the installed version, so
that I can install the correct resource dll of my Add-in.

Thanks in advance,
Mirko

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Carlos J. Quintero [VB MVP] - 26 Jan 2006 10:28 GMT

Hi Mirko,

You can try locating the numeric folder inside

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\

for example, "1033" for English.

The installation folder can be retrieved from the registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ key, InstallDir
value

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> Hi all,
>
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> Thanks in advance,
> Mirko

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Mirko Matytschak - 26 Jan 2006 12:52 GMT

Hi Carlos,

thanks for your answer. It seems indeed, that this is the only reliable way
to find out the VS culture.

I need this information to install a resource-dll for my add-in. This dll is
language neutral (it just contains bitmap resources), but there seems to be
no way to install language neutral resource dlls for VS add-ins.

So I generate a resource dll with the right culture during installation. I
wrote a program, which patches the metadata of an assembly to change the
culture ;-)

Mirko

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carlos J. Quintero [VB MVP]" <carlosq@NOSPAMsogecable.com>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.vstudio.extensibility
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: Determine installed VS language version

> Hi Mirko,
>
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> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ key, InstallDir
> value

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