Check if Excel Installed

15 Years Ago serkan sendur 0 467 Views

three lines of code to check MS Excel is installed on PC

RegistryKey key = Registry.ClassesRoot;
			RegistryKey excelKey = key.OpenSubKey("Excel.Application");
			bool excelInstalled = excelKey == null ? false : true;

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15 Years Ago

i forgot to say that you have to add Microsoft.Win32 namespace

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