are there any limitations to writing a registry value name?

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Shawn - 16 Jun 2005 19:22 GMT

i am trying to write a test that would cause a method that writes a registry
value name to fail. can anyone tell me if there are any limitations to a
registry value name? length? types of characters? they had a test in place
that attempts to write a huge string (Hamlet's monalog) as a value name. it's
supposed to cause the method to fail but it actually writes the name to the
registry. any ideas?

thanks

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Mihajlo Cvetanović - 17 Jun 2005 15:39 GMT

> i am trying to write a test that would cause a method that writes a registry
> value name to fail. can anyone tell me if there are any limitations to a
> registry value name? length? types of characters? they had a test in place
> that attempts to write a huge string (Hamlet's monalog) as a value name. it's
> supposed to cause the method to fail but it actually writes the name to the
> registry. any ideas?

There are limits in the registry:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/sysinfo/base/registry_element_size_limits.asp

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