"the solutions and answers provided on experts exchange have been extremely helpful to me over the last few years. i wear a lot of hats - developer, database administrator, help desk, etc., so i know a lot of things but not a lot about one thing.. Storing and retrieving information from the windows registry will play a major part in any programmer's life. you can store small bits of information, such as recently used files, form sizes and location, and user preferences—to name just a few—in the windows registry.. In this article i shall discuss some basics of windows registry and then explain how basic registry operations can be done in vb.net. basics of windows registry. the registry is organized as a hierarchical structure. it has basically five predefined keys under which all data is added or accessed. these keys cannot be renamed or deleted..
See part 1 the registrykey class enables you to manipulate data in a registry key; it contains members to add, remove, replace, and read registry data.. I cannot seem to get this to work...i am trying to delete a registry key using wmi in vb.net. attached is the code i am using. and what is funny is i use almost the same exact code to create a key only using the "createkey" method instead and it works just fine!. 'declaring our registry key dim oregkey as registrykey. after that we define where the key has to work: 'define the subkey we're going to use in writeable mode oregkey = registry.localmachine.opensubkey("software", true) working with windows registry in vb.net – part 1: general information about the registry..
