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HELP! - Creating Registry with OpenSubKey Hanging

cr
Hello.

I have a C# (Windows forms) project that uses OpenSubKey to write some
values to a registry key. Here's the code:

// Create the Installation registry key and values
Microsoft.Win32.Registry.LocalMachine.CreateSubKey ("SOFTWARE\\Company\\Produ
ct\\1.0\\Installation");
Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey install =
Microsoft.Win32.Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(" SOFTWARE\\Company\\Product
\\1.0\\Installation", true);
install.SetValue("SERVERNAME", "ServerName");
install.SetValue("VERSION", "Version");
install.Flush();
install.Close();

For some reason on a Windows XP Pro box, the code hangs after writing the
registry values. No exceptions are thrown. On Win2k and W2k3 Server boxes,
it works just fine.

Does anyone have any idea as to why this code would hang (especially on a
WinXP Pro computer)?
Is there a better way of doing this?

Thanks.
Nov 21 '05 #1
2 2444
I am not sure why it hangs on XP but not on other systems. However,
isn't it true that CreateSubKey returns the key, so why calling
OpenSubKey next to CreateSubKey. Because the key returned by
CreateSubKey is not closed yet, maybe that is the cause of the problem?

So I suggest you try the following:
using ( Registry install = Registry.LocalMachine.CreateSubKey(@"Your
path here"))
{
install.SetValue("SERVERNAME", "ServerName");
install.SetValue("VERSION", "Version");
}

Hope it helps,
Thi

Nov 23 '05 #2
cr
Thi,
Thanks for your help. Everything seems to be working now.

"Truong Hong Thi" <th*****@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:11**********************@g47g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
I am not sure why it hangs on XP but not on other systems. However,
isn't it true that CreateSubKey returns the key, so why calling
OpenSubKey next to CreateSubKey. Because the key returned by
CreateSubKey is not closed yet, maybe that is the cause of the problem?

So I suggest you try the following:
using ( Registry install = Registry.LocalMachine.CreateSubKey(@"Your
path here"))
{
install.SetValue("SERVERNAME", "ServerName");
install.SetValue("VERSION", "Version");
}

Hope it helps,
Thi

Nov 23 '05 #3

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