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Quite a few people have recently asked me how to save data to the computers Registry so i thought i would write a basic tutorial on how to do it.



How to Create a Registry Key


When creating a registry key use the CreateSubKey method. This method is used to specify the folder where our Value will be located


Example:

My.Computer.Registry.CurrentUser.CreateSubKey("AppName\Coins")


Now to set the value of the Registry Key

First create an integer at the top of your code:

Private Coins = 100


Now lets create the value and save the number of coins we have:

My.Computer.Registry.SetValue("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppName\Coins", "Coins", Coins)

The code above sets the value of our Registry Key to how many coins the user has and it saves it under "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppName\Coins"



How to retrieve the value of our Registry Key


To get our value we will be using the GetValue method:

Dim readCoins = My.Computer.Registry.GetValue(
    "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppName\Coins", "Coins", Nothing)


This was a very basic tutorial on getting and setting values from the Registry, if you have any questions pm me or leave a comment
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