C# will not write the entire string to the registry

[Dean Bortell]

I have a program that encrypts a datetime objects "to
long datetime string" string to and encrypted sequence.
The problem is this: if I use the following source code
it works (key is declared earlier and works fine):

string valueName= "Date Installed";
key.SetValue(valueName, "²ã95ì.*úÞx e¸<
¡uO2s
¯EÔ");

The problem is this code doesn't:

string valueName = "Date Installed";
object s1 = "²ã95ì.*úÞx e¸<
¡uO2s
¯EÔ";
//(I have tried string instead of object)

key.SetValue(valueName, Convert.ToString(s1));

When I check the registry in this case, only "²ã95ì.*úÞx"
was written. Please help if you can! This is driving me
crazy!

[Peter Koen]

"Dean Bortell" <bo******@cdfainc.com> wrote in news:028f01c3abca$c0584660
$a*******@phx.gbl:

I have a program that encrypts a datetime objects "to
long datetime string" string to and encrypted sequence.
The problem is this: if I use the following source code
it works (key is declared earlier and works fine):

string valueName= "Date Installed";
key.SetValue(valueName, "²ã95ì.*úÞx e¸<
¡uO2s
¯EÔ");

The problem is this code doesn't:

string valueName = "Date Installed";
object s1 = "²ã95ì.*úÞx e¸<
¡uO2s
¯EÔ";
//(I have tried string instead of object)

key.SetValue(valueName, Convert.ToString(s1));

When I check the registry in this case, only "²ã95ì.*úÞx"
was written. Please help if you can! This is driving me
crazy!

You shouldn't write encoded strings as a string into the registry. Better
write them as a byte array so that you won't have any problems with
special encodings.

To get the Bytes from the string use System.Text Namespace and the
Encoding classes.

greets
Peter

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