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vb.netserviceregistry
C4W
C4W

Reputation: 249

Getting Windows Service To Read Registry HKLM

I've been having a heck of a time trying to get this to work. I wrote both a service and a form application in VB.NET, both of which need to access a registry key to locate a computer that has my database on it. In the forms app it works great, but the service does not. I thought it was a permissions problem so I checked permissions on the server (Windows 2008) and they were fine - I even went as far as to run the service as the admin in case that was the problem but still no joy. Is there something wrong with my code?

I have tried ways to access the registry. The first method just sets the server variable to nothing and the second method the 'rk' variable ends up being nothing (telling me that it cannot even locate the sub key):

Dim server As String = My.Computer.Registry.GetValue("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\EPS\XPV", "Server", Nothing)

and the second one is:

Dim rk As RegistryKey = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey("\SOFTWARE\EPS\XPV")

The service itself starts up just fine because I'm getting my log messages right after these lines that tell me the value is blank so it just comes down to figuring out why I cannot access the registry in the service even though I can in the forms app.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 956

Answers (1)

Louis
Louis

Reputation: 660

Either look under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node for your keys/values, or compile your application as 64bit.

Upvotes: 1

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