Code to check if XP Service Pack 3 Installed (And .net 3.5)

Question

I want to write a program (in vb.net) that checks a customers configuration to make sure that they're ...

• Running XP service Pack 3
• Running .Net 3.0 or above.
• Give them a warning if they are not running .Net 3.5 or above.

or

• Running Vista Service Pack 1.

How would I do this? There is a stackoverflow question asking how to tell which version of .NET is installed, but how do I test which O/S & O/S service pack is installed?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/199080/how-to-detect-what-net-framework-versions-and-service-packs-are-installed

Answer 1

Take a look at this article by Microsoft How to determine the operating system service pack level in Visual Basic .NET or in Visual Basic 2005