FYI: using the registry class

[Scott Penner]

This is partially FYI and partially in response to Phil's question in the VB forum...
Using the registry, if you've looked into it, is largely undocumented. Hopefully the following code will save you some time:

// The instance of the Registry key class is created by the 
// static method OpenSubKey in the Registry class
// The second boolean parameter opens the key for editing if true
RegistryKey RegTest = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey("SOFTWARE\\TESTKEY",true);

// This results in a DWORD key
int  testValue1 = 50 ; 
// This results in a multi line string entry
string[] testValue2 = new String[3] {"Eat","my","shorts"};
// This results in a byte field (a non-array will be a simple byte key)
byte[] testValue3 = new byte[3] {1,2,3};
// Almost any other type results in a string, REG_SZ

// Creates a new key and value under the current subkey
RegTest.SetValue("TestValue1",testValue1) ;
RegTest.SetValue("TestValue2",testValue2) ;
RegTest.SetValue("TestValue3",testValue3) ; 

[mbjunior99]

I have worked out the REG_SZ and REG_DWORD but I cannot workout how to get REG_BINARY and REG_MULTI_SZ to work. Do you have any code to get this to work for VB.NET?

[Scott Penner]

The sample code I wrote originally works and demonstrates all the major reg types.

For binary, you are passing a byte array. For reg_multi_sz you just pass in an array of strings.

-hope that helps