Summary

Synopsis

This article explains how InstallShield determines which (if any) source control software is installed.

Discussion

During initialization, InstallShield reads the ProviderRegKey value from the following registry key:

On 32 Bit machines: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\SourceCodeControlProvider

On 64 Bit machines: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Wow6432Node\Software\SourceCodeControlProvider

Note: This key indicates the default source control provider, and thus InstallShield always uses the default source control provider if more than one source control system is installed on the system.

If this value cannot be read, InstallShield assumes that no source control provider is installed.

This value indicates the registry key (under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE) where additional source control provider information can be found:

The predefined values read are:

SCCServerName ? Indicates the name of the source control provider.

SCCServerPath ? Indicates the path and filename (or just filename if the library is in the .dll search path) of the library (.dll) that provides the source control interface that the IDE should use to communicate with the source control system.

If the SCCServerPath value does not exist or the file pointed to it cannot be loaded (via LoadLibrary), the IDE assumes that no source control provider is installed.

Additional Information

This functionality is defined by Microsoft SCC standards and may change in the future.

For more information, see the InstallShield Help Library topic Adding Projects to Source Control.

For further information about how the InstallShield IDE handles source control software, see the InstallShield Help Library topic Using Source Code Control.

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