Well, I want to develop a very specific tool that will help our customers in case of installation problems by checking some keys in registry and some files, I don't want to add more pain by forcing them to install a runtime to run the tool that will help them in their installation problems ...
it must work on various kind of computers: W2000, W2003, WXP, W98 and terminal servers...

As you said I don't want  .NET , and I don't want VB either :-) 
eventually, I will do this in Delphi :-(

Regards
  "John Pierce" <john.raymond.pierce at gmail.com> a écrit dans le message de news: 73905280505310744f9dc268 at mail.gmail.com...
  No big deal, but I am surprised how many folks *do not* want the .NET framework installed. Was there this kind of resistance years ago to installing the VB Runtime on peoples machines? I mean, at the end of the day, it just some dlls that do not modify the machine. They just take up space on the box.

  With all the press and folks developing in C# I thought .NET had penetrated the market much more than folks seem to indicate. It is just curious to me that this is a concern since I don't really care if Microsoft .NET can be utilized or not on your customer computers, nor am I trying to advocate .NET over FFI.

  Regards,

  John


  On 5/31/05, alr <alr.dev at free.fr> wrote:
    Hi Pierce 
    thank you for your answer

    unfortunatly, this utility is supposed to  be runned on customer's computers and I cannot assume that they have the dot net framework - in fact i'm sure that they do not and I don't want to install it before running my tool. 
    I really would like to do it with FFI.

    but as I said, I really appreciate that you answered
    Regards
     Alain
      "John Pierce" <john.raymond.pierce at gmail.com> a écrit dans le message de news: 7390528050531044151aad62b at mail.gmail.com...
      Hi Alain,

      If you already have the .NET 1.1 framework installed on your computer then you can download the Squeak.NET bridge (available on SqueakMap) and at such time you know have access to over 3800 base class items exposed in the .NET framework by Microsoft. Of course, there are registry classes in the Microsoft.Win32 namespace. Here's some sample code:


      localMachine := DotNet Registry LocalMachine.
      software := localMachine openSubKey: 'Software'.
      software subKeyCount -> 75


      Regards,

      John


      On 5/31/05, alr <alr.dev at free.fr> wrote: 
        I would like to write a small utility program for my job and i need to read
        the windows registry.
        I saw that Ned started a small changeset (Win32Registry-nk.cs attached) in
        2002 but there was still a problem with it (could not coerce arguments 
        exception). I do not know ffi enough and do not see exactly what the problem
        is.

        Did someone read the windows registry with squeak ? and How ?

        Your help would be very appreciated
        thanks

        Alain 


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