Read and write to the registry with VB.NET

Question

I made a game and I would like to store the high score and other values in the windows registry. It's made in VB.NET. Could someone give me a sample code example of simple reading and writing to the registry.

Thanks

Solution 1

Writing

Reading

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Solution 2

You must open Registry sub Key before read or write. Then you can read or write

Dim regKey As RegistryKey
Dim Value As Object
regKey =My.Computer.Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VB_and_VBA_Program_Settings", True)
'Here u can read value of AppName
Value = regKey.GetValue("AppName", "Default Value")
'Or u can write the value
  value=regkey.setValue("AppName", "myApp")
regKey.Close()

Solution 3

I'm more comfortable with C#, but it's pretty straightforward with VB.NET too. Here's an example of how to write to the registry, and another example of how to read from the registry. Don't forget to import the Microsoft.Win32 namespace.

Solution 4

You can use registry.getvalue and registry.setvalue. Here are a couple of examples used for default file types:

Registry.GetValue("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\classes" & "\" & fileFormatExt(i), "", "error")

Registry.SetValue("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\classes\" & FileType, "", appTag) ' set new value, overwrite any other, creates key if not there.

Solution 5

http://www.vbdotnetheaven.com/UploadFile/mahesh/WindowsRegistry04262005045814AM/WindowsRegistry.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.win32.registry.aspx

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Comments

[Robert Cody]

That worked for me. SaveSetting is less fussy about registry read/write permissions because it is writing in a controlled way to a well defined place in the registry (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings)