Determine Visio edition

[Nikolay Belyh]

How do I determine wich Visio 2007 edition (Standard / Professional)
is installed (programmatically)?
What is the right way to do this thing?

Kind regards, Nikolay.

 

[JuneTheSecond]

I don't know whether Version property includes information about edition.
I've hard that some addons are not includede in standard edition.
You might know the edition, if you check addons using addons property.

 

[Nikolay Belyh]

Thank you for the response.

Unfortunately the edition information is not included in Version/
FullBuild property.
On both edition Version="12.0", FullBuild="806228390"
Examinig addons collection is an option,
but it does not sound as a robust (right) way to go... does it?

I had an idea of checking MSI product information about installed
products,
but maybe there is an easir way to go? Digging MSI info is not that
fun, actually...

I mean, for example, Office's SKUs (Stock Keeping Units, i.e.
editions)
product id's are documented: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/orkXP/HA011364611033.aspx
What about Visio's SKUs?

Also, I have found following key in the registry:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Visio\Edition

For "Professional edition" the value is "PRO", for "Standard edition"
the value is "STD"
Can this key be trusted for edition detection?
Are other values (beside from "PRO" and "STD") possible?

Kind regards, Nikolay.

 

[Nikolay Belyh]

Actually, I need to know not the edition; I need to know if
'shape-graphics' and the 'shape-data' features are supported by Visio
(2007) or not.
"Pro" does support them, "Standard" does not.

 

[Al Edlund]

You might try to see if one of the datarecordset methods works against the
document. datarecordsets is only in the professional version, so if you get
an error you know you're in standard.
al

 

[Nikolay Belyh]

Al, thank you for the response.

The problem is, I don't have a document when I need this information..
This information will be used to enable/disable certain (application-
level) features in the addin..

Kind regards, Nikolay.

 

[Al Edlund]

are you enabling/disabling this functionality at install or runtime?
al

 

[Nikolay Belyh]

At runtime.

 

[John Marshall, MVP]

In the registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / Software / Microsoft /
Office / 12.0 / Visio / Edition

The value will be Pro.

John... Visio MVP

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[Al Edlund]

tks john, I got busy this weekend and couldn't get back

 

[Nikolay Belyh]

Thanks, Al, John