{"id":3973,"date":"2006-03-31T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-31T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/buckh\/2006\/03\/31\/how-to-detect-whether-team-explorer-is-installed\/"},"modified":"2006-03-31T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-31T09:30:00","slug":"how-to-detect-whether-team-explorer-is-installed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/how-to-detect-whether-team-explorer-is-installed\/","title":{"rendered":"How to detect whether Team Explorer is installed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On an internal list, the question of how to detect whether Team Explorer is installed came up.&nbsp; I didn&#8217;t know the answer, and I figure there are others that would like to know this.<\/p>\n<p>To detect Team Explorer, look for the registry key <font face=\"Courier New\">HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftVisualStudio8.0InstalledProductsTeam Explorer<\/font> with a DWORD entry called <font face=\"Courier New\">UseInterface<\/font> having a value of 1.<\/p>\n<p>From the command line, you can use the <font face=\"Courier New\">reg<\/font> command to query the registry.<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Courier New\">D:&gt;reg query &#8220;HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftVisualStudio8.0InstalledProductsTeam Explorer&#8221; \/v UseInterface<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Courier New\">HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftVisualStudio8.0InstalledProductsTeam Explorer<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; UseInterface&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; REG_DWORD&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 0x1<\/font><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On an internal list, the question of how to detect whether Team Explorer is installed came up.&nbsp; I didn&#8217;t know the answer, and I figure there are others that would like to know this. To detect Team Explorer, look for the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftVisualStudio8.0InstalledProductsTeam Explorer with a DWORD entry called UseInterface having a value of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":10268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,8],"class_list":["post-3973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-source-control","tag-team-foundation"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>On an internal list, the question of how to detect whether Team Explorer is installed came up.&nbsp; I didn&#8217;t know the answer, and I figure there are others that would like to know this. To detect Team Explorer, look for the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftVisualStudio8.0InstalledProductsTeam Explorer with a DWORD entry called UseInterface having a value of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}