ASP/VBA/ActiveX Windows registry editor (RegEdit) home page.

Description

Intuitive, easy to use COM interface to windows registry. Set of classes to read/enumerate/modify windows registry keys and values from ASP, VBS and T-SQL.

Links

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License

Shareware About prices and registration

Compatibility notes.

ActiveX RegEdit was designed to work with Windows NT 4.0. The library uses standard Win32 interface, so it can work on any versions of Windows NT 3.1/3.51, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows 2003 and Windows XP. You can use it on workstation, server or advanced server versions.

Features

Registry values manipulation

Read values and its types
Set registry values and its types
Delete registry values
Test existence of a value

Registry keys manipulation

Add and remove keys.
Test existence of a key
Read key properties (number of values and subkeys, last write time, ..)

Enumaration

Enumerate values of key
Enumerate subkeys of key

Utilities

Connect to remote registry
Logon to user account with read/write registry rights (ASP/T-SQL)
Expand envinronment strings.
Works with any VBA (VBA 5, VBA 6, VB.Net, Word, Excel, Access, ...), script environments (VBScript and Jscript in ASP, ASP.Net, WSH) and C#.

Object model

Server - Server/computer for the ActiveX regedit.

Keys - Collection of key objects of one registry key. (Keys property, Subkeys of the Key specified by Connect method (or by hKey property).)

Key - One registry key. (GetKey method, Returns specified key from remote computer.)

Values - Collection of value objects of one registry key. (Values property, Values for the specified registry key.)

Value - Represents one value from windows registry (Item property, Returns a single Value object from the Values collection.)

Keys - Collection of key objects of one registry key. (SubKeys property, Subkeys of the key.)

Key - One registry key. (Item property, Returns a single Key object from the Keys collection.)

Library classes

Key		One registry key.
Keys		Collection of key objects of one registry key.
Server		Server/computer for the ActiveX regedit.
Value		Represents one value from windows registry
Values		Collection of value objects of one registry key.

Library enums

AccessRights		Access mask that describes the desired security access for the key.
LogonTypes		Specifies the type of logon operation to perform.
ReservedKeys		The predefined reserved handle values.
ValueType		Registry value types.

Examples

How to - create a key, add value (long, binary, ..), enumerate, delete.

Sample registry viewer

This is full client-side source code for Microsoft IE to browse local/remote registry. You have to allow creating of ActiveX RegEdit object to run this code properly.
Another computer:

Registry keys

(Local)

Registry values

None

Add a new key

  'Get RegEdit.Server object
  Set S = CreateObject("RegEdit.Server")

  'Add a new key
  Set Key = S.GetKey("HKLM\SOFTWARE").CreateKey("MyFirstKey")

List of OLEDB providers on local or remote computer

This script lets you list all installed OLEDB providers (oledb drivers) on local or remote computer from windows scripting host/VBScript. The script can be simly modified for ASP or ASP.Net.

  'The script writes all installed OLEDB providers.
  Option Explicit

  Dim OutText, S, Key

  'Create a server object
  Set S = CreateObject("RegEdit.Server")

  'Optionally connect to another computer
'  S.Connect "muj"

  OutText = OutText & "OLEDB providers installed on " & _
    s.Name & ":" & vbCrLf
  OutText = OutText & "************************************" & vbCrLf

  For Each Key In S.GetKey("HKCR\CLSID").SubKeys
    If Key.ExistsValue("OLEDB_SERVICES") Then
      OutText = OutText & Key.Values("").Value &  vbtab & _
        " : " &   Key.SubKeys("OLE DB Provider").Values("") & vbCrLf
    End If
  Next

  Wscript.Echo OutText

Set ODBC CPTimeout registry value

  Set S = CreateObject("RegEdit.Server")
  'CPTimeout is string value
  S.Keys("SOFTWARE\ODBC\ODBCINST.INI\SQL Server").Values("CPTimeout") = "180"

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