Provides directory locations and other information that describes the application environment.

Provides one time initialisation for the NTier designer environment.

A helper class that searches for the Visual Studio application registry key.

NOTE: If you make changes to this class, also make the same changes in: - CoreTools\NTier.VSSilverlightShadowAssistant\Installers\VisualStudioRegistryKeyLocator.cs - Designer\NTier.Designer\VisualStudioRegistryKeyLocator.cs