In HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ is the list of installed programs in my machine (at least most of them). There, there's a String Value called UninstallString which has what you need to run in order to uninstall the program. The thing is not every installer writes the same kind of info, yet Windo...
I have an MSI that is being generated from WIX scripts. My question is similar to this question. I want to create a custom uninstaller instead of using the default MSI uninstaller. I am thinking of adding a custom action that executes after PublishProduct or before InstallFinalize that just goes and modifies the registry entry that sp...
Hi experts, I am developing an desktop based application using VB.NET, similar to add/remove program. everything was working fine until i start working on uninstall feature. Now what am i doing is that i get the uninstall string of the specific application from the registry and use System.Diagnostics.Process to run UninstallString. Di...