Is it possible to reference another application via an environment variable in visual studio?

Question

Here is the scenario.

I have application A, which is a add-on tool of application B (a third party product). I need to install a file in a directory of application B during the install of app A (Using Visual Studio 2005). I know the default directory location of app B, but the user could change that location during the install of app B. App B also sets an Environment variable of its location.

Is there any way I can use the System Environment variable that shows me the location of App B in my Visual Studio 2005 Setup project for App A to install that file correctly?

Answer 1

Yes you can as long as the environment variable is a system environment variable. If it is a user environment variable, the user deploying the app A and B should be the same for you to access that during the deployment of app B. You may use System.Environment class in C# to access the environment variables.

Answer 2

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