Visual Basic .NET 2008 registry GetValue exception

Visual Basic .NET 2008 registry GetValue exception - what wrong?

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Andre Klimov - 31 Mar 2008 08:40 GMT

Hi!

Situation:

simple code read registry value (OpenSubKey -> GetValue, as usual).
Requested value exists in registry and has type DWORD, read into the
variable UInt32, access rights granted.

When value's data is in interval &H0 - &H7FFFFFFF - it's works fine. When
value's data has "sign bit rised" (&HF0000000 - &HFFFFFFFF) - arithmetic
operation exception occurs (overflow).

Question is: is it a bug in Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll or just stupid error
in registry usage?

WBR, Andre Klimov
Aladdin Knowledge Systems
Israel

PS
VS2008 Team Suite v9.0.21022.8 RTM (MSDN downloaded), standard installation

PPS
Sorry for simple question - I'm beginner and start use VB.NET only 3 days
before...

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Bill McCarthy - 31 Mar 2008 09:50 GMT

It's actually a problem in the .NET framework When the registry key type is
REG_DWORD they use an Int32
in RegistryKey.InternalGetValue

So you need to use an Int32 (aka Integer), not an unsigned one.

> Hi!
>
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> Sorry for simple question - I'm beginner and start use VB.NET only 3 days
> before...

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Andre Klimov - 31 Mar 2008 13:23 GMT

Thank you very much!

WBR,

> It's actually a problem in the .NET framework When the registry key type is
> REG_DWORD they use an Int32
> in RegistryKey.InternalGetValue
>
> So you need to use an Int32 (aka Integer), not an unsigned one.

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Visual Basic .NET 2008 registry GetValue exception - what wrong?

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