Hi
My application installs a front-end GUI, which runs code when buttons are
clicked. It also installs a command-line utility, that is a console
application.
They are both installed to the program's application directory, along with
the DLL that contains the generic code that they both call.
My question is, is there any way of modifying the environment variable
permanently with the setup project, such that the user has got the program's
directory in their path, so that when they start a command prompt and type
the name of the application it will start? In a similar way to which
sdkvars.bat does, but permanently.
I know they will want to do this.
Thanks
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Bonj,
Yes, you can do this. You will want to modify the values in the
following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACH INE\System\Curr entControlSet\C ontrol\Session
Manager\Environ ment
Once you do that, make sure you broadcast a WM_SETTINGCHANG E message, so
that other programs know that an environment variable has changed. If you
want to add the environment variable for the current user, then modify the
following registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_US ER\Environment
Hope this helps.
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- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
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My application installs a front-end GUI, which runs code when buttons are
clicked. It also installs a command-line utility, that is a console
application.
They are both installed to the program's application directory, along with
the DLL that contains the generic code that they both call.
My question is, is there any way of modifying the environment variable
permanently with the setup project, such that the user has got the
program's
directory in their path, so that when they start a command prompt and type
the name of the application it will start? In a similar way to which
sdkvars.bat does, but permanently.
I know they will want to do this.
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