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