Thursday, August 27, 2009

Getting installed Windows components with C#

There is a good way to get the list of installed windows components using PowerShell here. So i just rewrote it on C#

private void GetListOfInstalledWinComponents()
{
string componentsList = string.Empty;
string componentsKey = @"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup\Oc Manager\Subcomponents";
using (RegistryKey regKey = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(componentsKey))
{
try
{
// getting all names from this key
foreach (string componentName in regKey.GetValueNames())
{
//getting the key value
object val = regKey.GetValue(componentName);
int keyData;
// try to figure out if the value field is defined
// if not - go to the next
if (!int.TryParse(val.ToString(), out keyData))
{
continue;
}
//if the value for a given name is more than 0 it
// means that this component is installed
if (keyData >0)
{
componentsList += componentName + " - Installed" +Environment.NewLine;
}

}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{ }
}
}

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Producing OSS translation continues

After a long vacation break I'm back to translation of "Producing Open Source Software" book from English to Russian. As i read the book more and more i'll become more and more interested in it. I'm not a manager, i'm a developer but many principles in this book are true for work inside the team. So thanks to Karl Fogel.

Sunday, March 29, 2009

So, the translation work is on the way, i have finished the translation of chapter 1. I use emacs for my work, it's a great editor for plain text.

Monday, March 9, 2009

Producing Open Source Software

Now I'm engaged to translation of the book "Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project" by Karl Fogel. I'm already started to contribute to the russian section. Book site is http://producingoss.com/