VB.NET Registry Key Does Not Exist .NET Win7 x64

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Public Function sequence() As Byte()
        Dim r As RegistryKey
        Dim return_value As Byte()
        r = RegistryKey.OpenBaseKey(RegistryHive.LocalMachine,_       
        RegistryView.Registry64)
        r.OpenSubKey("SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion",_
        False,_
        Security.AccessControl.RegistryRights.QueryValues)
        return_value = r.GetValue("DigitalProductID", {})
        Return return_value
    End Function

Why does the above code return NULL/Value does not exist? I have tried Impersonate etc.. in WMI programming.

All I would like to do is get the Digital Product ID return to me as a Byte() array in Visual Basic Express 2010 (AnyCPU compile. As I intend to add this to a DLL). This is of course simple in a x86 Windows enviroment.

Any help would be great. If you can do it in C# then I can always convert it over to VB.NET

Here is what I have Done.

Google for over 2 days.
WMI Impersonate (With the Set oReg, VBE 2010 freaks and removes the SET)
Setting Secuitry Permissions
Changing registry view to Default/32 and 64.

I am at a complete loss. So any help would be great.

Cheers

Posted 6-Sep-11 20:42pm

Dool_Cookies

Updated 6-Sep-11 21:08pm

Prerak Patel

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Mehdi Gholam · Answer 1 · 2011-09-09T07:35:00

Try the following code:

C#

const string queryString = "SELECT SerialNumber FROM Win32_OperatingSystem";

string productId = (from ManagementObject managementObject in new ManagementObjectSearcher(queryString).Get()
                    from PropertyData propertyData in managementObject.Properties
                    where propertyData.Name == "SerialNumber"
                    select (string)propertyData.Value).FirstOrDefault();

Console.WriteLine(productId);