I need to delete a registry string value.The registry string value that I'm trying to delete is:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftMSDN SetupDefaultSet
I've tried googling for results, but none of the sample scrips I have located have done the trick.They all seem to throw a bunch of errors in Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition.
I have this code which should make my application start on startup or stop it from starting on startup depending on whether a checkbox is checked or not:
If MnuItemAutoStart.Checked = True Then
My.Settings.Startup = True
'This code all works fine, it creates the registry key like clockwork
Dim oReg As RegistryKey = Registry.LocalMachine
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I have tried running the program as administrator, using a different registry value, turning off all of my antivirus & firewalls and loads of other stuff. The strange thing is that I can delete the registry key in regedit, or any other program, it's just my program won't do it. It works on another program with exactly the same code (same startup code, different program).
I have been looking for ages trying to find a way to delete a registry key in vb.net - This works: My.Computer.Registry.LocalMachine.DeleteSubKey
But my problem is that the key I want to delete has a different name on every computer. I.E. "KL Deployment Wrapper5444789417547544987"
I have played arround with: My.Computer.Registry.LocalMachine.GetSubKeyNames.Find
I have access to VS 2010 through work and I'm having a bit of a play. I'm trying to create a small program to show the installed software from GP and have the ability to delete a selected registry key from a list. Am using a checked list box and 2 buttons. Also have 2 labels on the form but just using them as a visual check as to what the string says.
The program starts alright and gives the list of installed software from Group Policy. I'm having the problem deleting the ticked item. Here is the code I'm using. I think the problem is when it comes to the .deletesubkey line and what I have entered. I want it to delete the selected item rather than have the specific key name entered.
Imports Microsoft.Win32
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
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I have program that on first run will run after installed will setup a server connection. The next times the program is run it will not execute this code to setup the server as it was done in the first run.
I can't use clickOnce IsFirstRun as the customer doesn't want that used for installation.I am using MSI to create the setup. I right click setup / view / Registry. I create a key value, example "HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareReality", "App", "Installed"I set the property AlwaysCreate = false, and DeleteAtUninstall = true.
My big question I don't want to create the key value when the application is first installed. Only delete it when uninstalled.My code for checking for the key value:
Code:If (My.Computer.Registry.GetValue("HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareReality", "App", Nothing) <> "Installed") Then 'The program is running for the first time so create key value My.Computer.Registry.SetValue("HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareRealitySolutions", "CodeRed", "Installed") 'Setup server for the fist time Else 'The key exists so go no need to setup the server'Do something else End If
The key value deletes on the uninstalled - which is what i want it to do. However, it always creates the key value when installed. i don't want it to do this. It should only create the key value in the code.Can any tell me, when setting up the registry in the setup project, is there a way to stop it from creating the key value when the program is installed.
i am creating a currency converter in VB 2008. I have a two buttons to choose the currency � or $. When one is clicked the String � or $ is entered into my textbox. I need a backspace button. and i used this code.
tb_result.Text = tb_result.Text.Substring(0, tb_result.Text.Length - 1)
tb_result.text = my textbox.
It deletes the last string, but i want it to not delete the Currency($�).
I know that Deleting a specific line in a sequential text file is impossible but instead copy the needed lines and not copying the unneeded ones to an output file .. killing the old one and renaming the new one with the same.. I can't make this step...
That is my record file
Code:
Input #1, CustomerName, CustomerHomeAddress, CustomerBussAddress, CustomerTel1, CustomerMob1, CustomerID, DateRent, CarRegPin
Code:
"Josek Sam","68 West Land Street","149 Union of States","4524563","45635463","JOSKSAM1",#2009-03-02#,"MILANCGLZ2008"
"Josef Malm","142 Unions Street","64 Hamersters Street","452504","42542054","JOSFMALM2",#2009-03-06#,"MILANCGLZ2008"
"Dave Green","131 Oxford Street","96 BlueBane Route","452542452","43254345","DAVGRN3",#2009-03-07#,"MILANCGLZ2008"
I made a form that when you put your CustomerID in Text3 Box.. it access the records and make some calculations. now.. The customer will return the car.. Then his data should be deleted.. I want to know how to make that when I enter the CustomerID and press on the Command button .. It copies the other lines to a new output folder and doesn't copy these ... So it appears to be deleted using this way..
my problem is in subject can u please give me a easy way to do it?
View 5 RepliesI'm writing a email program and i need to make it so that when I delete a item from a listbox it also deletes from a text file. Right now all it does is delete it from the listbox and when the program is reloaded its still there.
Dim arrEmailSelect As New List(Of Integer)
Dim fileContents As String
Dim thisEmail As New email
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Im working on this webbrowser and i have fully integrated a working Proxy (it will use a proxy such as 100.00.00:0000)It will only change the proxy ip if you do the code:RefreshIESettings("100.00.00:0000")(That is a code i made, declared i mean)Anyway so heres what i wanna do:I want to have a richtextbox or something, with lines of proxy ips, such as this:
100.00.01:0000
100.00.02:0002
100.00.03:0003
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So i thought maybe if you convert that richtextbox text into a string, it might be easier?
ine from a text file. This is for an ASP.net Webpage. I will have a file called ources.txt. Example data of this file looks like this:
View 3 RepliesI have an Access table in which I connect through ODBC commands. I want to delete the 50% of data rows from it. Can anyone knows a string to write for doing that? ALARMLOG is my table. In MS SQL I tryed succesfully the following command :
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I want to read a string from a registry key, if its 0 do one thing, and if its 1, do something else.
This code (if it works..) would at the first time create a sub key, and assign it to 1, but if its not existing, it would then show a few messageboxe's - But it doesnt work, even if I set it to 1 or 0, it won't work, it always displays the messages.
If My.Computer.Registry.GetValue("HKEY_CURRENT_USERA Sim Game StudiosA Sim Game - Business",
"FirstRun", "1") Then
MessageBox.Show("Your name is Jay J, you are 23 years old")
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I am trying to do a query on the registry for uninstallation of a program but dont know where to start.The structure would be like so:If {123-456-789} exisits in registry then run Msi.exe /x {123-456-789}therwise run
View 2 RepliesI have been trying my hand at this for some days now and just cant get anything to work. Below is the code im currently using to delete a row from a database table, the problem when trying to build the project line 5 is giving this error about the value con" Value of type String cannot be converted to 'System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection' "
Dim con As String = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" & "Data Source=Customers.mdb"
Dim cnn As New OleDb.OleDbConnection(con)
cnn.Open()
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I have also tried using this code below, but to no success. Im basically just looking for something rock soild that i can use to accomplish this task. Been stuck on this for quite a while now.
CustDetailsTableAdapter1.Connection.Open()
Me.CustDetailsTableAdapter1.Delete(txtDelCustN.Text, txtDelCustSname.Text, txtDelCustTel.Text, txtDelCustAddr.Text)
CustDetailsTableAdapter1.Connection.Close()
Lets say my program requires a password of "vbforums" to bootup. The user enters "vbforums" and clicks enter to proceed to the program.I want to make a registry value in the registry under my program with that text. And now on load up i would want to be able to check to see if the correct password is in that specific spot in the registry.I have never fooled with the registry so im pretty lost, i tried doing a bit of searching on the forums but couldn't find anything. Anyone know how i would do this?
View 1 RepliesAnyway what im trying to do is create a launcher for a program (a game) and i am in need of assistance on this one thing Basically its an options window, i need each of the custom options to be saved to the INI file, for example
Default:
resolution 800 600
fullscreen 0
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I am working on a VB.net winform application which makes extensive us of a mssql database. For the most part (almost exclusively), I have used the Visual Studio dataset for accessing the data. This means that the connection string was created as a program setting, and is saved in the app.config file. The problem that I have, is that I need to move this connection string to the system registry because it has been deemed by the powers that be that a config file is not secure enough.
I think that I can figure out how to access a registry key, and I know that I can save the string to a registry key, but the problem that I am running into is that I don't access the connection key in the code anywhere to easily swap out the registry key for the existing program setting. When VS creates the connection and dataset, where is the connection string referenced? Is there a simple way to swap these out? is it possible even to just reference the registry key in the setting so that I don't have to find where the setting is used and switch it out?
I have the following code to retrieve a string value from the registry.
Dim retval As String = String.Empty
Try
objManagementBaseObject = objManagementClass.GetMethodParameters("GetStringValue")
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The problem is that if sValue doesn't exist, it generates a ManagementException. I want those errors ignored because I don't care if the value doesn't exist, it's entirely possible and acceptable. How can I "accept" those errors but display all others?
I thought you could use a structure as a container. I have line_1 with a line of data read in from a file. I only want to Look in position 1 of the line and position 8 for 9 and position 31 for 11. If I create a line_2 with the parts broken out for pieces that I want to look at then I could use a with statement right?
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I want to store a string variable value in the windows registry If the below is a correct statement. My.Computer. Registry. SetValue ("HKEY_ LOCAL_ MACHINESYSTEMMyKey", "Start", "ABC")i will declare a string variable Dim strvalue as String strval = InputBox("Enter a string")and now i want to insert the User given value in the Registry Key as above in place of "ABC".
View 2 RepliesI have made this code and it does work with a normal string key, but with a multi-string value(REG_MULTI_SZ) key it does not.[code]The error is this : Conversion from type 'String()' to type 'String' is not valid.So how do i read from a multi-tring value registry key and list is all into the listbox ?
View 3 RepliesI've been trying to convert this .reg file:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionInternet Settings]
"ProxyEnable"=dword:00000001
"ProxyServer"="socks=localhost:8080"
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But so far, all the values have been getting muddled up (They are put in the wrong place or with others) and some values aren't added. I think it's because all the values are of different types, but I'm not sure how to fix it and specify what type of value they are.
I recently have been developing a app that uses the rijndael encrypt and decrypt function it stores dates in the registry (encrypted with a key using the algorithm)
for example Dim strOldDay As String = Key.GetValue("UserSettings", "").ToString the key was made using a private function called "createkeys"
example:
dim current as currentdate
Current.Day = DateTime.Now.Day.ToString
Current.Day = Encrypt(pPassPhrase, Current.Day)
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I'm just messing around coding a ID Checker that checks registry value. if it does not equal to the string, then the program will close as so:
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
Dim check As String
check = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"[code]....
Now what im trying to do is, where the 'check' is, i want to add more than one UniqueID so that other users can use the app. Lets say a user with a UniqueID of YYYYYYYYYYYYY purchased my app and recieves updates.
I am trying to bind a textbox to a binding source (using the IDE DataBindings Editor) and it works fine except for one thing: if I delete the text I get the subject error. What I want to happen is the datarecord field be updated to a dbnull value -- how do I get that to happen?
View 4 RepliesError is coming Registry Access is not allowed.While Opening a Key.
Code:
Private Sub Button3_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button3.Click
NewDelete("HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun", "Sonia")
End Sub
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I've had a bit of a look around the net and on the forums but I've yet to find an answer to my question. I've got Visual Basic 2008 Express and I'm trying to write some registry entries, I can write strings fine just using
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Currently, I am try to get the email addresses that have been saved or stored by the user of the computer. This isn't the emails that the user has sent or received, or the contacts he/she has in his address book. Just simply the email accounts that have been accessed from the computer.I know that there are some locations stored in the registry that have the email account. The email addresses that are used on the current computer. I just can't seem to find them on my computer.I am not sure if the registry is the only place to find it or if it stored on the web browser such as internet explorer or google chrome.
View 1 RepliesI am writing an application that connects to a specific com port. This com port can change depending on how many physical ports are on the PC, and if other USB devices have installed com ports before this one.
I have the communication to the com port all working great, but I need to get the com port description not just the "COM#" which is all I currently get.
I found in the registry where the description is stored but am having trouble doing what I need.
In this key:
Code:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMControlSet001ControlClass{4D36E978-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
there is a varied number of sub keys. The are numbered 0000-NNNN depending on how many ports you have. Inside each of these keys, there are multiple values, although I am only interested in one or 2 of them.
My problem is, that I do not know how to get a list of the subkeys (the 0000-NNNN keys/folders) from the original key I posted. I have looked through a few registry tutorials, and I can view the default value in the listed key, but I could not find how to list the subkeys of the listed key.
Does anyone have any sample code they could share that shows how I can get a listing of subkeys, and then run through those subkeys checking for a specific value in one of the strings contained in the subkey?
I am using VB.net 2008 and Windows XP.
