Hi all,

Can anyone tell me where the registry entries are made for the Guidance Automation toolkit and guidance automation extensions?

Help welcome and thanks in advance,

ThunderRock

Hi ThunderRock,

There are no main registry entries of its own for the extensions, but you can check for this entry in the VS registry hive to check if they're installed or not:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Packages\{77d93a80-73fc-40f8-87db-acd3482964b2}

The default value for that key also includes the currently installed version number:

Microsoft.Practices.RecipeFramework.VisualStudio.RecipeManagerPackage, Microsoft.Practices.RecipeFramework.VisualStudio, Version=1.0.60429.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a

Regarding GAT, there are no entries for it of its own, but again the presence of this key within VS hive will confirm it's installed:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Packages\{77d93a80-73fc-40f8-87db-acd3482964b2}\Templates\{23fc29c9-fafe-47f1-b633-b548e788dddf}

And you don't really need to check the version of GAT as it ships together with GAX so they're both always the same version.

Does this helps?

-Victor.

Hi ThunderRock,

There are no main registry entries of its own for the extensions, but you can check for this entry in the VS registry hive to check if they're installed or not:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Packages\{77d93a80-73fc-40f8-87db-acd3482964b2}

The default value for that key also includes the currently installed version number:

Microsoft.Practices.RecipeFramework.VisualStudio.RecipeManagerPackage, Microsoft.Practices.RecipeFramework.VisualStudio, Version=1.0.60429.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a

Regarding GAT, there are no entries for it of its own, but again the presence of this key within VS hive will confirm it's installed:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Packages\{77d93a80-73fc-40f8-87db-acd3482964b2}\Templates\{23fc29c9-fafe-47f1-b633-b548e788dddf}

And you don't really need to check the version of GAT as it ships together with GAX so they're both always the same version.

Does this helps?

-Victor.

Also, in the next minor update to GAX (v1.2) all these will be simplified as GAX will have registry keys of its own.