Hi Jacci,

The Registry class contains what you are looking for. You would use the static field LocalMachine to get the information. Look in the VS.NET help under Microsoft.Wind32.Registry.LocalMachine for an example.

>Hi All,
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>I need to find out if a certain application was installed on the server from my ASP.NET application. The existence of this certain application determines what icons to display on my aspx page.
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>I’m assuming I need to check the web server’s registry. I haven’t had much experience dealing with registry values so I’m not sure what methods to use to get what I want. This application seems to install itself under LocalMachine\Software.
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>One of the other developers suggested using a Try/Catch block around the instantiation of this application object. Is this a kludge or a viable solution? It seem to me like a kludge.
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>TIA,
>Jacci