VB6 Question on finding out if .NET 2.0 is loaded

Hello to All,

I'm not sure how to go about doing this but what I'm needing is to figure out how to code to find out if 'Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0' is loaded on the machine that is running.

Any guidance and help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you All

Mythos

What does VB6 have to do with .Net 2.0?

Well, he can't write a .NET program to find out if the .NET framework is installed because if it isn't, then the program won't work.

However, writing a VB6 program whose sole purpose would be to determine if the machine had the NET 2.0 framework on it could be installed and run.

The only thing is, I have no idea what the VB6 program would check to determine if the framework was there or not.

We are now going to be converting to vb 2005 but we have to make sure that each machine has .NET 2.0 loaded. What the application is going to do is first check to see if .NET 2.0 is loaded and it will then update that users information on our SQL server letting us know they have it loaded then we will know they won't have any issues with our VB 2005 appliations. and if they don't have it loaded we will know which machines do not have it loaded and take care of them on an individual basis.

So that is why I need to write code to our existing VB6 application to see if .NET 2.0 is loaded or not. Also I know that VB2005 can load the required files we just don't want the user to do this that is taken care of in other processes. I am just trying to find out which machines have it and which ones don't.

Something like programaticly checking add-remove programs to see if it is loaded somehow.

Thanks again.

Mythos

Or maybe you know where it would be located within REGEDIT and how I could located it.

Thanks

Mythos