Re: Excel Exists on machine?

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From: Shane Stump
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 03:22

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I prefer the little more "fluff" in this type code because I have a tendency
to "add" to such functions as I go along (in case of different versions of
excel, etc).

Regards,

SHane

"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <gambit47@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Shane Stump" <ShaneStump@TanstaaflSoftware.com> wrote in message
> news:3f67cfa0$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> > I used code like the following:
>
> You could trim that down to the following:
>
>     bool IsExcelInstalled(void)
>     {
>         std::auto_ptr<TRegistry> pRegistry(new TRegistry);
>         pRegistry->RootKey = HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT;
>         pRegistry->Access = KEY_READ;    // for BCB5+ only
>         return pRegistry->KeyExists("Excel.Application");
>     }
>
>
> Gambit
>
>

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