Retrieving a list of installed applications with versions programmatically

Question

Hi All,

Just posting this to see if anyone has any ideas.  I am currently writing an application that will retrieve a list of installed applications from a windows mobile device (6.0 and above), and display this list in some way to the user.  I've already implemented the list using ConfigurationManager and passing in the following query:

<wap-provisioningdoc>
<characteristic-query type="UnInstall" recursive="true">
</characteristic-query>
</wap-provisioningdoc>

Which works great, except that it just returns the names of the installed applications and ideally I want to retrieve version information as well.  If anyone knows of a good way to retrieve the same list of installed apps PLUS versions, please let me know.

Thanks!

Tim Maguire

Answer 1

AFAIK there's no version information in a CAB thus there's nothing to retrieve.

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Answer 2

Hi ,

Can you provide the code to obtain list of Installed Apps in WM6

Thanks
Shiv

Answer 3

Get keys from HKLM\Software\Apps.

Under each key there are values which show whether an app is installed or not and where it is installed.

Versions are NOT available under WM.

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