binary --> string

[ahankhah]

Hello friends,

as you can see in the below address:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\Microsoft\windows\currentversion\explorer\recentdocs\

data saved is in binary.

Should any one help me to get strings out of the mentioned binary data.

[Shaggy Hiker]

You can turn any binary data into strings, since they are nearly the same thing. What would be considerably more difficult is finding meaningful text in the binary data. Is that what you are wanting to do?

[ahankhah]

Shaggy Hiker,
thank you very much for your reply.

My problem is due to the type of data in registry. It is of REG_BINARY type, which I am not able to read it as a string.

[Shaggy Hiker]

This thread seems to answer the question. You might try that solution:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3...-string-vb-net