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Hi<br />
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I am writing an installer program for my app that needs to install its database.<br />
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The installer needs to check whether SQL Server or MSDE is installed on this computer. if yes, what is its instance name and port .<br />
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How can I do that ?
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Hi

I am writing an installer program for my app that needs to install its database.

The installer needs to check whether SQL Server or MSDE is installed on this computer. if yes, what is its instance name and port .

How can I do that ?

How to find out programmatically whether MSDE is installed ?

Visual Basic is Microsoft’s event-driven programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) for its Component Object Model (COM) programming model. It is relatively easy to learn and use because of its graphical development features and BASIC heritage. It has been replaced with VB.NET, and is very similar to VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), the programming language for the Microsoft Office product line.