Provides access to the system registry. The object is designed to represent a "current key". I.e. you can think of the Registry object as attached to the registry key specified by the Key and Path properties. When you work with values the Name property "attaches" the object to the desired value.

The object allows enumeration of registry keys, but this features are is not implemented as collections that can be enumerated with For Each statements. The reasons are two - compatibility with the previous version of this object and the fact that the sub-keys enumerated can be too many. Depending on the usage this may lead to allocation of huge amount of system resources for a simple operation. See GetPathName and GetValueName for more information on how to enumerate keys and values.

Members reference

Name Syntax Description
Key object.Key = value
variable = object.Key		 
Sets the registry branch. Common constants:
Const HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT = &H0
Const HKEY_CURRENT_USER = &H1
Const HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = &H2
Const HKEY_USERS = &H3
Const HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA = &H4
Const HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG = &H5
Const HKEY_DYN_DATA = &H6
Path object.Path = value
variable = object.Path		 Sets/gets the key path name
Value object.Value = value
variable = object.Value		 Sets/gets the value for the value with the specified Name (see Name).
Default property.
Name object.Name = value
variable = object.Name		 Specifies the name of the current value in the current key.
Version variable = object.Version Returns the object version
ValueType object.ValueType = value
variable = object.ValueType		 Specifies the type of the registry value type. When a value is assigned to the Value property it is converted internally to this type. Common constants: 
Const REG_SZ = 1
Const REG_EXPAND_SZ = 2
Const REG_BINARY = 3
Const REG_DWORD = 4
Const REG_DWORD_LITTLE_ENDIAN = 4
Const REG_DWORD_BIG_ENDIAN = 5
Const REG_LINK = 6
Const REG_MULTI_SZ = 7
GetPathName enum_path = object.GetPathName(nKey) Call with nKey = 0 and then increment nKey to enumerate the sub-keys in the current key. When there are no more keys an error will occur. If you do not want On Error statements an empty key name will be returned if you set the ReturnEmptyForEnumEnd to true.
GetValueName enum_val = object.GetPathName(nVal) Call with nVal = 0 and then increment nVal to enumerate the values in the current key. When there are no more values an error will occur. If you do not want On Error statements an empty key name will be returned if you set the ReturnEmptyForEnumEnd to true.
CreatePath object..CreatePath() Creates a registry key specified by the Path property with the in the registry branch specified by the Key property.
DeletePath object.DeletePath Deletes the registry key specified by the Path property with the in the registry branch specified by the Key property.
DeleteValue object.DeleteValue Deletes the value specified by the Name property from the current key (the key is determined by the Key and the Path properties).
Advanced features
UseRawBinary object.UseRawBinary = bool_val
variable = object.UseRawBinary 		 Default is false.
If set to true the Value property will return binary data instead of hex decimal textual representation of binary data for binary (REG_BINARY) values. Useful when you want to pass the data to a database or another object that requires binary data (VT_ARRAY | VT_UI1).
HexWithSpaces object.HexWithSpaces = bool_val
variable = object.HexWithSpaces 		 Default is false.
When the Value property returns the value of a binary value (REG_BINARY), by default it returns is as hex-decimal string. Id this property is set to true spaces between the bytes will be inserted.
ReturnEmptyForEnumEnd object.ReturnEmptyForEnumEnd = bool_val
variable = object.ReturnEmptyForEnumEnd 		 Default is false.
GetPathName and GetValueName by default generate an error which can be intercepted with OnError statement when there are no more keys/values to enumerate. Setting this property to true changes this behavior and they return empty strings instead of generating an error.