Application #65. Interact with a Windows Service
The Windows Registry provides a convenient place to store user-configuration settings. While .NET provides facilities for application-configuration files, these files have no concept of user-specific settings. The Registry, on the other hand, has a structure well suited for storing user-specific information.
Building Upon...Application #35: Create a Windows Explorer–Style Application Application #67: Understand the Garbage Collector |
New Concepts
The Microsoft.Win32 namespace provides the Registry class as an entry point to the system Registry. The Registry class contains shared properties for each of the Registry’s major hives: CurrentUser, LocalMachine, ClassesRoot, Users, and CurrentConfig ...
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