enternaL Posted October 24, 2005 Share Posted October 24, 2005 (edited) 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 52609-270-8563213-02137Visio 2000 Technical 52633-270-8772137-02409Visio 2000 Professional 52625-270-8717921-02626I'm not sure what exactly which each set of numbers mean. Edited October 24, 2005 by enternaL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enternaL Posted October 27, 2005 Author Share Posted October 27, 2005 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.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suryad Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 Doesnt it say in the Help toolbar.....about Visio? If you already have it installed that is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prathapml Posted October 29, 2005 Share Posted October 29, 2005 Visio 2000 Standard 52609-270-8563213-02137Visio 2000 Technical 52633-270-8772137-02409Visio 2000 Professional 52625-270-8717921-02626To 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.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enternaL Posted October 29, 2005 Author Share Posted October 29, 2005 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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