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Article:		Reading and Writing Registry Keys with Visual Basic
Subject:		Missing constants?
Date:		2004-11-23 09:20:00
From:		tekhead009
I may be missing something, but it looks like there are a few missing constants within the constants. Particularly in the security access mask section. I've read the article through, but cannot find any help. Aside from that, which I think I can find an alternative for, a very informative tutorial.

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• Missing constants?
  2004-12-02 12:51:41  LukeM [View]
  
  
  You're right about the missing constants, it appears that a few of the constants used to define the security access masks are not declared. For example, STANDARD_RIGHTS_READ, _WRITE, and _ALL.
  
  If you've used alternatives that seem to work, could you post them?
  
  Or hopefully the author will post them soon.
• Missing constants?
  2004-12-02 13:31:08  LukeM [View]
  
  
  This appears to work.
  Change these constants to the following values:
  
Public Const KEY_READ = &H20019
Public Const KEY_WRITE = &H20006
Public Const KEY_ALL_ACCESS = &HF003F

  
  The FileTime type was also not discussed. This is used in the RegQueryInfoKey and RegEnumKeyEx functions. It can be declared with:
  
  
Public Type FILETIME
dwLowDateTime As Long
dwHighDateTime As Long
End Type

  
  Finally, the RegCloseKey function is mentioned, but not defined. It is:
  
  
Declare Function RegCloseKey Lib "advapi32.dll" (ByVal hKey As Long) As Long

  
  This and much more can be found on this API Guide site, http://www.mangovision.com/vbapi/
• Missing constants?
  2005-01-25 15:07:38  mdyoung [View]
  
  
  Here's the constant declaration that was inteded to be used:
  
  Const STANDARD_RIGHTS_ALL = &H1F0000
  Const STANDARD_RIGHTS_READ = &H20000
  Const STANDARD_RIGHTS_WRITE = &H20000
  
  If you would like a complete list of security descriptor constants, see Microsoft's article.
  
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/adsi/adsi/security_descriptors_on_files_and_registry_keys.asp
  
  Hope this helps,
  
  MDY
• Missing constants?
  2005-01-25 15:10:15  mdyoung [View]
  
  
  OOPS! Forgot a constant.
  
  Const SYNCHRONIZE = &H100000
  
  Later,
  
  MDY