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Refracted Paladin
Refracted Paladin

Reputation: 12216

Best way to check for Office (Word) 2007

I have setup spell checking through WinWord but I need to find a way to in sure that Word 2007 is installed on there systems.

I have seen the Registry Versions of this but I also read that it can provide false positives. So I am in the 'market' as it were to figure out how to accomplish this. Can it be as simple as doing a File.Exists() on WinWord.exe in the 2007 file path?

Any other ideas?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 683

Answers (3)

James Bailey
James Bailey

Reputation: 1245

The best way would be use a combination. Use the registry to get the installation path. Inside of that path, you should find the executable. A false positive occurs because upgrades and uninstalls will sometimes remove the file but not the registry entry.

Upvotes: 0

mcauthorn
mcauthorn

Reputation: 598

If you are worried about the registry and false positives you can look at the exe version. Microsoft documents how to determine the executable version here

Upvotes: 0

Darin Dimitrov
Darin Dimitrov

Reputation: 1038720

Type word = Type.GetTypeFromProgID("Word.Application");
if (word != null) {
    // Word is installed
}

To check that Word 2007 in particular is installed:

Type word = Type.GetTypeFromProgID("Word.Application.12");
if (word != null) {
    // Word 2007 is installed
}

Upvotes: 5

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