Visio Version

[enternaL]

I'm trying to accurately determine what edition of Visio 2000 is installed. The editions I'm talking about are Professional, Standard, and Technical.

Right now, I'm using the ProductID found at SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Visio\6.0\Registration\ProductID, but I believe if any other CDkey is used, the Product ID will be slightly different.

Does anyone know what part of the ProductID, if any, determines what edition Visio is, or any better way to find out?

Here are the Product IDs, if it helps.

Visio 2000 Standard 52609-270-8563213-02137

Visio 2000 Technical 52633-270-8772137-02409

Visio 2000 Professional 52625-270-8717921-02626

I'm not sure what exactly which each set of numbers mean.

Edited October 24, 2005 by enternaL

[enternaL]

So I'm guessing no one knows anything about Microsoft's Product IDs (not CDKeys). Product IDs aren't limited to Microsoft Visio 2000, but practically all Microsoft products.

Is there any other way to determine what edition a MS product is? For example Visio Std/Pro/Tech, MS Office Pro/Std, etc.?

[suryad]

Doesnt it say in the Help toolbar.....about Visio? If you already have it installed that is.

[prathapml]

Visio 2000 Standard 52609-270-8563213-02137

Visio 2000 Technical 52633-270-8772137-02409

Visio 2000 Professional 52625-270-8717921-02626

To an extent, this info is generally true:

Your initial 5 digits indicate product (visio) & edition (std,pro,etc) & version (2000).

The next 3 digits indicate the channel of purchase. For example, the 270 shows that its a VLK (or corp.). The other possibilities are oem, retail, upgrade.

The rest of the numbers are related to the product key - keeps changing with every individual key entered, so cant make any generalised observations.

The above is specifically for office 2000 & windows 2000. The PID pattern changes, for previous/newer products. If you need to know about any of the others, do feel free to ask.

Hoping this helps....

[enternaL]

Thanks for the help.

To explain the purpose of this, I'm writing a program to determine installed software on the computer it's ran on. It searches the registry for some applications such as Visio. This helps out alot :]

Edited October 29, 2005 by enternaL