Question

Can anyone help me out, how to detect if MSXML parser is installed on a machine or not. I looked for a registry entry,but unable to get one. I am writing a VB.NET application.
Thanks in advance 🙂

Answer 1

One way you can do it is to create an instance of one of the MSXML objects in your code. e.g.

Dim t As Type
Dim o As Object

' If this code causes an exception the object doesn't exist
t = Type.GetTypeFromProgID("MSXML2.DOMDocument")
o = Activator.CreateInstance(t);
System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComObject(o)

I apologize if my vb.net code is bad 🙂