Create / Modify the Registry at runtime

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Hi,

Part of the console program i'm doing is extraction of a zip file, and in extracting the zip file, a popup dialog box appears. The program run on scheduled task, meaning there will be human intervation(clicking of buttons). So i so browsed to see what to do to remove the popups.

I found one thats makes me create a subkey in the registry. By default, the created subkey will have:
Name Type Data
(Default) REG_SZ (Value Not Set)

What I need to do is to replace the data with 0(zero). How can i do this ?

I'm doing the changes in registry programmatically. If the subkey exists, then i don't need to enter the registry and continue with the process.

Please Help me.

Posted 21-Jan-13 14:10pm

Alan Tuscano

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 21-Jan-13 20:22pm

Which part of MSDN help was a problem to understand?
—SA

PIEBALDconsult 21-Jan-13 20:51pm

None of that is a good idea. Please rethink.

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-21T14:22:00

Solution 1

This is how: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/5a5t63w8.aspx[^].

Don't forget that you want to overwrite the {Default} value. Second parameter should be either null or string.Empty, which represents {Default}, and third — zero. This is explained in the first "Note" section referenced above.

—SA

Posted 21-Jan-13 14:22pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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Alan Tuscano 22-Jan-13 21:25pm

Hi SA,
I've done the code and run it.

regKey1.SetValue("", "", 0)

But in the registry, the value for default becomes empty/no value.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 22-Jan-13 21:38pm

How could it work with both empty string parameters, in principle?! Look thoroughly, only the second parameter is empty. And you yourself a favor, never write "", use string.Empty (or null, in this case).
—SA

Alan Tuscano 7-Feb-13 1:05am

Thanks SA..

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 7-Feb-13 1:23am

You are welcome.
—SA