MSFS20 Registry

[GHD]

Can anyone tell me the regiistry entry to help find the path to the FS2020 "common" folder?

 

[xr219]

Hi George,

I've just done a quick scan of my registry and I don't think the path is listed. Its held in the Program Folders in the WindowsApps directory. There may be some way of querying it, but I don't think its in the registry.

 

[GHD]

I agree, it isn't there, but is there some way to infer it? (Both MS Store and Steam).

 

[FlightGirl]

It was mentioned over at the MSFS forums site that MS wanted to move away from the registry....

Although an old trick is to search for the installation registry entries. But they seems to be hidden below {guids}.

So as far as I have found was to search for the values. For instance the SDK ws found under [\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{82D3AD7C-F33A-4C6B-B351-1A5995CB3548}] by searching after all enties with [DisplayName] .StartsWith("Microsoft Flight Simulator SDK"). I guess someting similar could be done for MSFS....

Although the only important key to get isn't the folder for msfs, -but to get the key/guid/version/trail. (for now it hasn't changed....)
The common-folder is in a fixed place under LocalAppData.

The common-data folders can be found in using .net via Environment.SpecialFolder.CommonApplicationData like this in C# :

    var isInstalledOnSteam = false; // this should be queried somehow
    
    //-------------- -------------- -------------- 
    var microsoftCode = "8wekyb3d8bbwe"; // This one should be queried through something
    //-------------- -------------- --------------

    var microsoftName = "Microsoft.FlightSimulator_" + microsoftCode;
    if (isInstalledOnSteam == false)
        microsoftName = "Microsoft.FlightDashboard_" + microsoftCode;

    var folder = Path.Combine(
        Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.LocalApplicationData),
        "Packages",
        microsoftName,
        @"LocalCache\Packages\");

Or if you just want to know it and not program it, refer to https://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/threads/introduction-to-msfs-sdk-scenery.448469/page-7#post-852270

 

[scruffyduck]

There are no registry entries for FS2020 as I understand it. As discussed above there are config files located in the user\AppData\Local structure and the location of the SDK is in the environemt variable MSFS_SDK

 

[rhumbaflappy]

From Jon's info:

Config path for Steam Edition: “%AppData%\Microsoft Flight Simulator”

Config path for MS Edition: C:\Users[user name]\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache

The file is called userCfg.opt and the last line shows where you put the content folder and the community folder is inside that. InstalledPackagesPath

The SDK installation creates an environment variable MSFS_SDK which contains its install path.

 

[GHD]

Thanks Dick,

That is exactly what I was looking for.