Re: Registy access via WMI in C#

From: Dr. Strangedub (strangedub@netscape.net)
Date: 01/14/03 

From: strangedub@netscape.net (Dr. Strangedub)
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 16:19:37 GMT

Thanks Alex -

Well, after doing a bit of searching and tinkering yesterday, I did get
OpenRemoteBaseKey to work for me. As mentioned before, our existing .asp pages
use WMI (StdRegProv), so I figured we needed to code up analogous logic in C#...
Now, OpenRemoteBaseKey doesn't appear to use WMI, so I'm not exactly sure how it
works. (I know WMI uses DCOM under the covers - so perhaps this must also rely
on DCOM?)

-Michael Rose
Unisys Corp

On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 17:21:22 -0800, "Alek Davis"
<stop_spam_alek.davis@intel.com> wrote:

>
>Why don't you simply use RegistryKey.OpenRemoteBaseKey method to open a key
>on remote machine? This sounds pretty straight-forward.
>
>-- Alek
>
>"Dr. Strangedub" <strangedub@netscape.net> wrote in message
>news:3e233198.449674677@news.rsvl.unisys.com...
>> We are in the process of converting some specialized ASP web applications
>from
>> asp (using VBScript / Javascript) to ASP.NET (using C#). One of the
>functions
>> of our applications is to update the Windows registry on a remote host
>(either
>> the host where the web exists, or another host). Today the server-side
>VBScript
>> uses WMI to access the registry via the StdRegProv class as follows:
>> ==
>> Set objRegistry = GetObject("winmgmts:root\default:StdRegProv")
>> lAccess = KEY_NOTIFY + KEY_QUERY_VALUE + KEY_SET_VALUE
>> Err.Clear ' Initialize error status
>> lRC = objRegistry.CheckAccess(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, shortPath,
>lAccess,bGranted)
>> ==
>>
>> I would appreciate any help (code samples, links, other docs) in coding
>this
>> logic in C#. We picked up the string "winmgmts:root\default:StdRegProv"
>used on
>> the GetObject call from an example at the online MSDN site -- and there
>seemed
>> to be no real explanation of how this string gets us to a Namespace.
>>
>> I know we could simply use the Microsoft.Win32 Namespace if our registry
>access
>> was limited to the localhost (i.e., the web server host), but we really do
>need
>> to do remote updates as well.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any help on this.
>>
>> -Michael G. Rose
>> Unisys Corp.
>> michael.rose@unisys.com
>>
>>
>
>

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