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Modify VA registry before VA first initialization

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Slansing	Posted - Nov 04 2013 : 5:30:32 PM While attempting to do a silent install, I use a reg file to apply the user/registration code so our users are not required to input it themselves. This is great, by the way. However, I'd also like to do a tweak to the VA registry - specifically turning off the version check: "CheckForLatestVersion"=hex:00 Since VS2010 hasn't launched yet when I attempt to set the registry, it seems that VA hasn't done its initial registry setup and once it does it overwrites my changes. Is it possible to have VA respect existing variables there? I'm not sure how this would affect upgrading, etc. Note that I also check to see if it installed correctly by checking for "InstalledBuildNo"="1925" , but this also does not exist, so I must also set this in the registry since I have no way to force VA to initialize. My test machine: Win 7 VS2010 Also has VS 2005 installed
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sean	Posted - Nov 04 2013 : 9:42:01 PM I wouldn't expect VA to overwrite CheckForLatestVersion if it is already present. Are you setting that in HKLM or HKCU of the user?
feline	Posted - Nov 04 2013 : 9:30:23 PM The idea of setting a default value to be picked up the first time VA is run is an interesting one, I have put in a feature request for this to see what our developers make of it: case=78219 To check if VA has installed correctly, for VS2010 and above VA is installed to a user specific directory. This is how the IDE its self works. So checking the registry is not automatically a reliable way of checking for this IDE. Are you able to check for files on the file system, as well as registry keys, to see if VA is installed, and which version is installed? I can point you at the files to check if so.

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