Hello,
I've got most of the code for writing a value to the windows registry, however when I change the path to a dummy key and value that I've set up for testing it fails. My code is below:
HKEY hKey;
LPCTSTR sk = TEXT("SOFTWARE\TestSoftware");
LONG openRes = RegOpenKeyEx(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, sk, 0, KEY_ALL_ACCESS , &hKey);
if (openRes==ERROR_SUCCESS) {
printf("Success opening key.");
} else {
printf("Error opening key.");
}
LPCTSTR value = TEXT("TestSoftwareKey");
LPCTSTR data = "TestData\0";
LONG setRes = RegSetValueEx (hKey, value, 0, REG_SZ, (LPBYTE)data, strlen(data)+1);
if (setRes == ERROR_SUCCESS) {
printf("Success writing to Registry.");
} else {
printf("Error writing to Registry.");
}
LONG closeOut = RegCloseKey(hKey);
if (closeOut == ERROR_SUCCESS) {
printf("Success closing key.");
} else {
printf("Error closing key.");
}
All three tests yield error statuses.
The part that confuses me is that I was able to run this code when pointing it at other portions of the registry. Any ideas?
thanks, brian