I am currently writing a program that will read part of the windows system registry however some of the values of these keys are of type System.Byte[] when i try and decode these values I can produce a string that has some readable characters that makes but mostly the string is jiberish. I have tried several encoding types but none seem ...
I am writing .Net application, which should connect to a webservice through a proxy (proxy with username password). My (All) .net application automatically uses the internet explorer's proxy server settings, but not proxy username password settings. Can't i store proxy username password in internet options ? Today i used Teamviewer and ...
If you are running a 32 bit app on a 64 bit machine (I am using windows 7) and you write this code RegistryKey key = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(@"Software\XXX") it will actually get the key from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\XXX and not HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\XXX Progromatically given a RegistryKey how do...
Does anyone know how to register any extension into the registry and open it with program X in C#? For instance, when installing Word, it adds the extensions .doc, .docx etc... and then when you double click on the file Word opens up this file. This I want to achieve with my own program. Double clicking file.xxx opens up the contents usi...
Hi, On 64-bit platform, installed-check is getting failed for SQL Reporting Services and Add-ins. Installer is checking the registry entries under path "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\Instance Names" and registry entry is available out there but since MS SQL Server is a 64-bit application, therefore, the inst...
Hi, I am working on performance optimizing for our legacy application. It use VC++ 2008, OS is WindowsXP or above. In installation, it will parse a file and write some information about the file into registry. With the files count increasing, the installation need very long time. I try to comment the code that write to registry, and i...
At first glance this seems like a purely subjective/aesthetic issue, but I'd be interested to hear opinions (especially any technical ones) on whether environment variables or the registry is the preferred place for storing configuration data in a Windows environment. I can currently only think of the following differences: Registry s...
I'm writing a basic MSI installer using installshield 2010. A different company would supply a .reg file that the installer would read in runtime and would update the registry accordingly. I can't figure out how to accomplish this. I manged to write a script using the Installscript that accomplish this, but when this script is running ...
Hi all, I have come code that reads the registry and looks for a value in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\App\ but when running on 64bit versions of Windows the value is under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\App. How should I best approach this? Do I need a 64bit installer or should I rewrite my code to detect both places? Thanks ...
Hi, On our server (win 2008 r2) we enabled the setting "force network authentication" to enforce that the client must support the NLA, because the port 3389 is directly reachable from the internet. But on Windows XP SP3 the NLA seems to be disabled per default. As I wrote an installer with WIX to distribute the rdp files, I'd also like ...
Is there any registry value that i could check to see if there is any version of SQL Server installed? I want to check a single value...not a value for 2005 another one for 2008 etc. ...
I have some code like so ( winforms app .NET 2.0 ) RegistryKey regKey=Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey@"SOFTWARE\cPaperless\TTC\Settings", false); This code is failing every once in a while on Win7 and Vista when UAC is on ( by failing i mean the key is null.) Note that the Key is definitely existing and I can see it in the registr...
Hi folks, I'm trying to add some performance counters to my asp.net website. Now, I know how to increment/decrement some custom counter I make .. but my problem is that if I get my ASP.NET website to create these counters, if they do not exist (eg. i do this check in the global.asax App start method) then add/create them. But, it doesn...
According to the documentation for API function GetNamedSecurityInfo, it can get information from the following objects: Local or remote files or directories on an NTFS file system Local or remote printers Local or remote Windows services Network shares Registry keys Semaphores, events, mutexes, and waitable timers File-mapping objects...
I'm using GetProfileInt to get key values from the registry. When the location exists, the code works, but when it does not, it returns 0 (and initializes the registry key to 0). Why doesn't this work? Code: SetRegistryKey(_T("MyKey")); int def = 0x1FFF; def = GetProfileInt(_T("Subkey"), _T("KeyWithVal"), def); ...
I am using InstallShield 2010 to create an installer for my application but I am having trouble finding any info about how to associate the file extensions my applications uses with the application. Can anyone link me to some docs or give me a quick run down on how to do this? My application is a java application and I am trying to cre...
i want to restrict certain emails to my website. an example would be that i only want people with gmail accounts to register to my website. { /* Check if valid email address */ $regex = "^[_+a-z0-9-]+(\.[_+a-z0-9-]+)*" ."@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]{1,})*" ."\.([a-z]{2,}){1}$"; if(!eregi($regex,$sube...
When registering a managed class for COM Interop by hand, certain registry keys are needed. For example HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT CLSID\[My Cls Id] InprocServer32 (Default) = "mscoree.dll" Assembly = [My assembly name] etc. I've noticed that when VS registers a library for COM Interop, it also adds a key HKEY_CLASSES_R...
Is there any way of identifying software modules with the help of only knowing CLASID value in the windows registry? ...
I have a class that modifies the ProxyEnable and ProxyServer registry keys of Internet Settings. If I use this class in a Console App and run it the value are changed and I can see the changes using regedit. Now the part that doesn't work is I am trying to use this class in an Installer class so that the registry keys are changed duri...