Stange text encoding in the Registry for RC1

Graye,

I am having a similar issue but cannot get the code quite right for the MUI string in the registry. Do you have code working for the RegLoadMUIString P/Invoke call?

-bp

lissbpp at 2007-9-3 >

Thanks Bill!

Below is the code I've been working with:

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Text;

using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

using Microsoft.Win32;

namespace ConsoleApplication2

{

class Program

[DllImport("advapi32.dll")]

public static extern int RegOpenKeyEx(IntPtr hKey, string lpSubKey,int ulOptions,int samDesired, out IntPtr phkResult);

[DllImport("advapi32.dll")]

internal static extern int RegLoadMUIString(IntPtr hKey, string pszValue, StringBuilder pszOutBuf, int cbOutBuf, out int pcbData, uint Flags, string pszDirectory);

[DllImport("advapi32.dll")]

public static extern int RegCloseKey(IntPtr hKey);

static void Main(string[] args)

{

try

//NOTE: Testing Vista MUI Registry strings

//NOTE: Pointer to HKEYLM

IntPtr localMachine = new IntPtr((long)unchecked((int)0x80000002));

//NOTE: regKey will contain the pointer to the open registry key

IntPtr regKey;

int pcbData = 0;

//NOTE: Open a device key with KEY_READ access rights.

RegOpenKeyEx(localMachine, @"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{36FC9E60-C465-11CF-8056-444553540000}", 0, 0x20019, out regKey);

//NOTE: Build the output buffer reference

StringBuilder lptStr = new StringBuilder(1024);

//NOTE: ClassDesc contains the MUI formatted string

int returnCode = RegLoadMUIString(regKey, "ClassDesc", lptStr, 1024, out pcbData, 0, null);

//NOTE: Close the key

//NOTE: Output values to console

Console.WriteLine("Reg key pointer : " + regKey.ToString());

Console.WriteLine("LPTSTR : " + lptStr.ToString());

Console.WriteLine("PCBDATA : " + pcbData.ToString());

Console.WriteLine("Return Code : " + returnCode.ToString());

Console.ReadLine();

}

catch (Exception ex)

{

Console.WriteLine("Exception : " + ex.Message);

Console.ReadLine();

}

}

}

}

NOTE: I'm getting a 120 return code from this call, and my output buffer (lptStr) is an empty string.

I was told that RegLoadMUIString is not in the RC1 API, can you confirm?

thanks,

-bp

lissbpp at 2007-9-3 >

Indeed RC2 has the correct strings in the registry. No need for RegLoadMUIString.

thanks,

-bp

lissbpp at 2007-9-3 >