registry monitor

Alexandros

Hi,
Is it possible to write a registry watcher with the .net framework. As far my research have gone seems that monitoring registry is a framework limitation.

One implementation i think it's achievable through enumerating keys and subkeys with retrospective method (snapshot1). After installing a program run again the retrospective method (snapshot2) then compare the two snapshots.

There is also a very advanced program process monitor but it doesn't give me the functionality i want.
Thanks keep up the good work
Alex

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Alexandros18y ago
Hi Bechir,
Unfortunately, the API of RegNotifyChangeKeyValue does not expose the type and the value that is changed.
you can look at the article in code project article down in the comments->
RegistryMonitor - a .NET wrapper class for RegNotifyChangeKeyValue
Thanks for the piece of info though,
Alex
Bechir Bejaoui18y ago
It is worth to make use of the RegNotifyChangeKeyValue Function instead of your approximative method. Because it Notifies the caller about changes to the attributes or contents of a specified registry key with the let's say the cleaest way.
Bechir Bejaoui18y ago
It is worth to make use of the RegNotifyChangeKeyValue Function instead of your approximative method. Because it Notifies the caller about changes to the attributes or contents of a specified registry key with the let's say the cleaest way.