Programmatically check if the installed version is the latest version of IE or not

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rahul.s9

Hello all,

Can someone please let me know how can i check programmatically (in
C++) or through some registry keys if the IE version installed is
the latest version or not ?

thanks
rahul
 
Thanks but i still want to programmatically figure out whether its the
latest version or not
 
Hi Rahul,

Have a look at this key, You should have an entry for IE, but there are many
variants as MS offers browser customizations.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components

This key is used by windows update.

Regards.
 
Thanks Rob,
that key has loads of information and how can i make out if the IE
installed on my machine is the latest version or not ??

if you can please elaborate your answer

thanks again
rahul
 
What exactly do you mean by "the latest version?" The latest version
available for XP is arguably the IE 7 beta. If you don't count betas,
it's IE 6 SP2. For Windows 2000, it's IE 6 SP1. What are you trying to
accomplish, and what are you going to do if what you find is not the
latest version?
 
Hi Raul and Gary,

Elaborating on what Gary said - yes there are some issues in determining the
'latest' version. As I also said there are also custom versions that MS
distributes with different Branding.cab files - I think there was an article
about the EU requiring a special XP version (XP N) without certain windows
components.

The registry key that I supplied you with was from this KB article

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=318378

If you browse under that key you will see a number of UID values for various
windows and IE components.

I am guessing that a more eloquent solution is to do an IE version check in
your application setup and to advise your clients of the minimum version
requirements. If you are doing a web download deployment of your app you can
read and test the UserAgent string to determine the clients IE version. Do a
google on 'UserAgent'.

Regards.
 
Rob wrote on Tue, 9 May 2006 16:52:10 +1000:
Hi Raul and Gary,

Elaborating on what Gary said - yes there are some issues in determining
the 'latest' version. As I also said there are also custom versions that
MS distributes with different Branding.cab files - I think there was an
article about the EU requiring a special XP version (XP N) without certain
windows components.
Click to expand...

I think you can safely ignore XP N - apparently less than 2,000 copies have
been sold, and it breaks applications that rely on components of Windows
Media Player.

Dan
 
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