Hi John,
There are examples in the VFP Samples showing how to read the registry to find the path to an application that opens a particular extension. You could use that and pass .doc, .xls, .ppt or whatever to find the appropriate path.
Cheers,
Andrew
>Hi,
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>I need to be able to detect the path on user's machines where they have certain Microsoft Office projects installed. Is there an API function to do this, or any other technique?
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>Any help would be appreciated.
If we were to introduce Visual FoxBase+, would we be able to work from the dotNet Prompt?
From Top 22 Developer Responses to defects in Software
2. "It’s not a bug, it’s a feature."
1. "I thought I fixed that."
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