Reading Registry Keys and Values

[jlegan]

Ok, here is what I am trying to do. I want to either do it in VB6 or preferably VB.NET so either way is going to be helpful.

I need to do two things:

1) I need to read this registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Environments\Windows NT x86\Drivers\Version-3 but not return a value. What I actually need to return is all of the keys underneath it. IE

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Environments\Windows NT x86\Drivers\Version-3 will contain all of the printer drivers on your system so they keys would look like:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Environments\Windows NT x86\Drivers\Version-3\HP LaserJet 5si
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Environments\Windows NT x86\Drivers\Version-3\Canon BJC-300

I want to read those keys so the values I would be looking for in this case would be HP LaserJet 5si & Canon BJC-300.

Now my plan is to append these values to a list box. Once in the list box here is the function I want to perform against them (and yes this is getting exponentionally more difficult).

In HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Print\Printers is a list of all of the printers on the system. In that key there is a key based on the name of the printer & a value "Printer Driver" that will correspond with one of the keys from above.

More or less what I am trying to do is generate a list box of all of the printer drivers installed on the system and from that list generate a list of printers on the system that use that particular driver.

Is this do able with VB and can anyone point me in the right direction.

I can be reached on here. AOL IM jimmjr19 or ICQ 6262404 if you have any questions or advice.

Thanks,

Jim

[RobDog888]

I am not too fluent with the APIs for the registry, but I know you can
enumerate the keys of a particular hive. This way you can build your list.

[jlegan]

Do you have any links, etc... to point me in the right direction?

[RobDog888]

All API

[jlegan]

I want to write this for VB6 ( I am learning VB right now and am starting with VB .NET.

This is the code I have now:

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        Dim Cnt As Integer
        Dim RegKey As RegistryKey = Registry.CurrentUser.CreateSubKey( _
           "Software")
        Dim SubKeys() As String = RegKey.GetSubKeyNames()
        Dim DriverAdd As String
        If SubKeys.Length > 0 Then
            For Cnt = 0 To SubKeys.Length - 1
                DriverAdd = (SubKeys(Cnt))
                lbDrivers.Items.Add(DriverAdd)
            Next Cnt
        End If
    End Sub

Which is modified and pieced together from the ALLApi website. lbDrivers is a listbox. When you click the button it populates the contents of the listbox with all of the subkeys from HKCU\Software. Since I want to write this in VB6 I went back to the website to get the syntax for it and was first A) shocked and the length of code but also ran into a brick wall because when I paste it into a few form most of the syntax is in red and none of it will compile, without editing any of it yet.

If anyone could point me in the right direction I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks,

Jim