pm me an address, I'll mail the export

Thanks, Steve, that was just what I needed. Newer SONAR installations add a new "isVst3" registry value, and the old "isVst" value is now taken to mean VST2 specifically. That piece of information allowed me to modify the code so that it should - in theory - pull out information from VST3 plugins as well. Waiting to hear back from the the two guinea pigs I sent the new build to, as I can't test it myself.

I just tried VST Inventory. I had to install an old Excel (Office 2000) since I use LibreOffice thses days.
I used a PC with Win 7 x64 with Sonar X3eP (both x64 and x86).
As far as I can tell, it found everything Sonar knows about.
It found and distinguished between the x86 and x64 versions .
It found my VST3's ...about 15 of these. 278 Plugins in all.
I especially like that it displays the plugin version and the file location.
Only one suggestion, If you take it mainstream, add a CSV file output.
Great job Dave.
-Michael

Yeah, I'm going to make a text output option for those who don't have Excel installed on their DAWs. It'll be automatic; I'll just have the program check to see if Excel is present and output text if it isn't. CSV makes sense because you can then easily import it into a database or spreadsheet. A formatted text file is almost as easy to do, then you could open it in Notepad right on your DAW. I didn't want to create a UI for it, but I may have to.
 
Thanks to everybody who tried it out and reported back. Some of those I gave the VST3-compatible version to may notice a bogus "(0)" at the end of the vendor names. I discovered that Win 8 was doing that after I'd emailed those out. It's since been fixed.
 

Hi Dave, when I began working from home, my company had me run a PC audit program from Belarc, which made a detailed listing of my machine. I sort of freaked from it as it also pulled the serial numbers from programs, so I manually removed those serials before I gave them the output. But it occurred to me that in the case of a complete system crash without a backup image, that such a listing would be usable for some VSTs.
 
Edit: I just ran Belarc again to check, but it does not pull any VST serials at all.

Thanks Bit
 
The little dude works fine.  I like a spread sheet as the output. Easy to sort, easy to add columns. Too many of the plugs have names that need description.
 
Only weirdness was for melodyne: it was listed twice. First line had "0" for inputs and outputs.
The second line has "2" for both, no version number and no size:
c:/audiocommon/VST3/Celemony/Melodyne/Melodyne.vst3*0   Melodyne 
A bunch do not have versions numbers, and other stuff. I figger they are hiding from your scrutiny. The Reaper plugs show nothing of the internal info.
 
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The idiots at google have decided zip files can contain viruses so nearly all zip files are blocked except some with real viruses: one size almost fits all. Very Smart Fools. Sorta like Congress.
 
 

Is it dropbox ready yet?

Waiting as well. Would love to try this out. :)

Studio's Reg Key is:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cakewalk Music Software\SONAR Studio\Cakewalk VST X64\Inventory

What about DX plugins? I have a slew of them from Sonar, Sound Forge and Vegas.