SimpleRegistry Control

SimpleRegistry is a COM Control (COM DLL) witch helps you to programmatically access the Windows Registry (PC Tools Desktop Maestro)
SimpleRegistry is a COM Control (COM DLL) witch helps you to programmatically access the Windows Registry in much more intuitive way than the Win32 Registry API.

Accessing the Registry from your code has never been easier - No more messing with handles, allocated buffers or having to import numerous Win32 constants into your application.

SimpleRegistry exposes the building blocks of the Registry (Keys & Values) in a object oriented fashion. Keys and values are treated as objects and have their own properties and methods.

Programming the Registry from Visual Basic, ASP, Delphi or any other environment that support ActiveX/COM is now as simple as VB or Delphi gets.

SimpleRegistry was written in C++ (ATL), so its size is very small (100kb) and it has no 3rd party dependencies.

Previous versions of the SimpleRegistry Control were written in Visual Basic. That caused SimpleRegistry to depend on the Visual Basic run-time which is more than 1mb in size. As a result, the control could only be used within Visual Basic applications.

In addition, the control was implemented as an ActiveX control which requires the application to have at least one form (on which to place the control). If an application contains no forms (a COM EXE server for example), than SimpleRegistry could not be used.

SimpleRegistry 3.0 was completely rewritten in C++ (ATL) to solve the limitations of previous versions. The control's size is only 100kb and it has no 3rd party dependencies. That means it will work in any development environment that supports ActiveX/COM (VB, Delphi, ASP etc.)

In addition the new version was implemented as a COM DLL (rather than an OCX) so you can use it with or without forms.

SimpleRegistry 3.0 has almost an identical API as version 2.0. However, it is not backwards compatible with previous versions due to the reasons detailed above.

New properties in version 3.0

AccessRights - Allows you to specify the default access rights used when performing a Registry operation (For example opening, creating or deleting a key). There are three access modes available: Read Only, Write Only and Full access (Read and Write).
SubKeyExists - Allows you to determine if a sub-key exists.

Limitations:

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