accessing the registry on networked pc's

[deekay]

im trying to create a mini inventory management/asset
management system that gathers pc information for all the
pc connected on a network.

and obviously id like to do this by accessing the
machines registry. these machines dont have the dot net
framework installed so will i still able to use the new
registry namespace in .net, or will i have to use api
calls like in vb6.

 

[Gary Milton]

Just use the Registry namespace. The framework does not need to be
installed on the remote machines whose registry you are interrogating.

Gary

 

[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Hi,

Try

Dim MyReg As RegistryKey =
RegistryKey.OpenRemoteBaseKey(RegistryHive.LocalMachine, strComputerName)

Dim MyRegKey As RegistryKey

Dim MyVal As String

MyRegKey = MyReg.OpenSubKey("Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\currentVersion")

MyVal = MyRegKey.GetValue("ProductID")

MyRegKey.Close()

txtRegistry.Text = MyVal

Catch ex As Exception

Debug.Writeline( ex.Message)

End Try



Ken