Take ownership of registry key with .NET 2.0?

[riteshtechie]

How does one go about taking ownership of a registry key using VB.NET 2008 *IF* one has only TakeOwnership privilege?

The problem is exactly as specified in MS KB Article ID: 111546 at:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/111546/EN-US/

...except that I would like to know how to do it in VB.NET 2008

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

[weirddemon]

That article gives you the answer. It tells you that need to use the RegOpenKeyEx API. I think that example is in C#, but that's not a big deal. Just look up the API on Google, MSDN, PInvoke, or all of them.

[riteshtechie]

Yeah I looked out and got these two functions for VB.NET

Declare Auto Function RegOpenKeyEx Lib "advapi32.dll" ( _
   ByVal hKey As IntPtr, _
   ByVal lpSubKey As String, _
   ByVal ulOptions As Integer, _
   ByVal samDesired As Integer, _
   ByRef phkResult As Integer _
) As Integer
 
    Declare Function RegSetKeySecurity Lib "advapi32" (ByVal hKey As Long, ByVal SecurityInformation As Long, ByVal pSecurityDescriptor As Security.SecurityZone) As Long

Now how to use them to get what I want

[riteshtechie]

Bump......

I tried a lot but couldn't find anything

[chris128]

What exactly did you try?