Saving registry key using regsavekey C#

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iam using RegSaveKey API to save key but it is returning error code 123 what iam doing
wrong

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 [DllImport("advapi32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto, SetLastError = true)]
        public static extern int RegSaveKey(UIntPtr hKey, [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStr)]string filename, IntPtr samDesired);

UIntPtr reg = UIntPtr.Zero;
string SaveFileName="myfilePath"

RegSaveKey(reg, SaveFileName, IntPtr.Zero);

Posted 3-Jan-18 1:30am

srilekhamenon

Updated 3-Jan-18 1:46am

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F-ES Sitecore 3-Jan-18 7:38am

.net has its own classes for manipulating the registry, there is no point in using dll calls.

srilekhamenon 4-Jan-18 4:04am

what is there .net equivalent sir

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CPallini · Answer 1 · 2018-01-03T01:46:00

Solution 1

From 'the documentation'[^]:

ERROR_INVALID_NAME
123 (0x7B)
The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

Posted 3-Jan-18 1:46am

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srilekhamenon 3-Jan-18 8:05am

i have already checked the path and path is fine my path is
C:\Windows\System32\Config\RCCBakup\s-1-5-20.bak