How to get a list of installed software products?

Question

How do I get a list of software products which are installed on the system. My goal is to iterate through these, and get the installation path of a few of them.

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Answer 1

You can ask the WMI Installed applications classes: the Win32_Products class represents all products installed by Windows Installer. For instance the following PS script will retrieve all prodcuts installed on local computer that were installed by Windows Installer:

Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product -ComputerName .

See Working with Software Installations. POrting the PS query to the equivalent C# use of WMI API (in other words Using WMI with the .NET Framework) is left as an exercise to the reader.