Finding the path to an installed application in C#

Well, you can find the path to a locally installed application by querying the windows registry.

The information is here:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\

Example photoshop.exe

I wrote this function in C# to do this for me:

/// 

        /// get the path to a specific application from the registry 
        /// 
        /// name of the application exe
        /// 
        public static string GetApplicationPath(string ExeName)
        {
            try
            {
                RegistryKey OurKey = Registry.LocalMachine;
                OurKey = OurKey.OpenSubKey(@"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\"+ExeName, true);
                if (OurKey != null)
                    return OurKey.GetValue("").ToString();
                else
                    return "";
            }
            catch(Exception ex)
            {
                return "";
            }
        }