Can't find VS2008 installdir registry in Windows 7 x64

Question

I'm currently writing a building script that needs the installdir registry key for visual studio 2008 to find where the devenv is. In windows vista, the registry key used to be in local machine\software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\installdir, but in windows 7 x64, it seemed to be not found. I tried, but failed to find it in other directories as well.

Did anyone else have this problem?

Answer 1

In Windows x64 all 32 bit (VisualStudio is one of them) proceess that write to (HKLM | HKCU)\SOFTWARE registry path are redriected to (HKLM | HKCU)\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node path, look for it under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0