Accessing Registry Settings

[Rocko411]

I 'm trying to Create and Set values in the registry. How do I set permissions so that my program has access to do this in Vb.Net?

[Cander]

hmm i didnt know you need to set any permissions!! Have you actually tried writing to the reg?

[DevGrp]

He might need to if the program is running of Win2000 or WinXP.

[hellswraith]

I think you can only write to the CurrentUser keys....not sure.

[Jeremy Martin]

If you are talking about computer permissions then you must have administrative rights but if your talking about your program being able to write to the registry it is just a True or Flase.

For example this is how I wrote to the registry in my last program.

Dim GetRegKey As RegistryKey
GetRegKey = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey("Software\Folder\Subfolder", False ) 'change to true if you need to write
Integer1 = CInt(GetRegKey.GetValue("Intvalue", ""))
String1 = Convert.ToString(GetRegKey.GetValue("Strvalue", ""))
GetRegKey.Close()

If you are writing the the registry then instead of saying someting = CInt.... then just put
PutRegKey.SetValue("Value", "1") or PutRegKey.SetValue("Name","my name is not fred")

[stingrae]

Hey,

When I type

Dim RegKey as

I don't get the keyword RegistryKey drop down in the autocomplete. Do I need to add a reference to it?

[hellswraith]

Yes, it is in the Microsoft namespace.

[stingrae]

uh-huh!!!

found it!

Dim RegKey As Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey

thanks

[stingrae]

hmmm.... now i keep getting this message:

n unhandled exception of type 'System.NullReferenceException' occurred in App01.exe

any ideas?

[stingrae]

i went into the registry and created the key manually. is there a function that says "IfExists"?

[Slow_Learner]

Strangely enough, a couple of articles down in the forum list, there is:

"Test if registry key exists"
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...hreadid=220853

[stingrae]

sorry. hungover ..... again