F. Scott Barker's Microsoft® Access 2000 Power Programming

PERFORMING TASKS WITH THE REGISTRY API CALLS

You can actually perform all the tasks that are done with the built-in VBA commands quite nicely with API calls, as well as much more. Some tasks are covered in the rest of this chapter:

• Creating a new Registry key

• Checking to see if a Registry key already exists

• Creating a new Registry value

• Updating a Registry value

• Deleting a key from the Registry

• Retrieving a value from the Registry

• Retrieving all the subkeys for a given Registry key

These tasks are demonstrated by using a utility created in Access that allows you to relink a front-end database to various back-end databases. These back ends are tracked by using the Windows Registry. Figure 18.7 shows the main form used in the example.

Figure 18.7. This ...