How can I check what version/edition of Visual Studio is installed programmatically?

Question

I could read registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\VisualStudio\\10.0. However, it doesn\'t give me any information about the edition of it - Profes

Answer 1

Put this code somewhere in your C++ project:

#ifdef _DEBUG
TCHAR version[50];
sprintf(&version[0], "Version = %d", _MSC_VER);
MessageBox(NULL, (LPCTSTR)szMsg, "Visual Studio", MB_OK | MB_ICONINFORMATION);
#endif

Note that _MSC_VER symbol is Microsoft specific. Here you can find a list of Visual Studio versions with the value for _MSC_VER for each version.