"Gultekin Komanli" <gkoma***@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi All,
>
> When I use "option strict on" the lines below are producing errors
> ("implicit conversion").
>
>
>        chkMove.Checked = RegKey.GetValue(C_RK_MOVEFILES, False)
>        txtUserName.Text = RegKey.GetValue(C_RK_USERNAME, "")
>
> Is there any function like GetValueBoolean, GetValueString for reading
> registry keys?
>
> Or should I use CType for conversion ?
>
>
> Cheers.
> Gultekin.
> --
>

> Yes, always keep it on.
>
> And here, you are responsible for converting these values to the
> appropriate types.  So you can use CType, or the more specialized
> CBool, CInt, CStr. You can also do things like Int32.Parse or
> Int32.TryParse, to actually parse strings as integers.  These
> conversions will fail if what you are getting from the registry
> cannot be cast as the appropriate type.
>
> You can just construct your own wrapper that has GetValueBoolean, and
> so on, where you do all these conversions. Then you just call your
> own method, which retrieves the registry key, does the appropriate
> conversion, checks if it's empty, and so on.
>
> "Gultekin Komanli" <gkoma***@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23ls9oSm1GHA.4816@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> > Hi All,
> >
> > When I use "option strict on" the lines below are producing errors
> > ("implicit conversion").
> >
> >
> >       chkMove.Checked = RegKey.GetValue(C_RK_MOVEFILES, False)
> >       txtUserName.Text = RegKey.GetValue(C_RK_USERNAME, "")
> >
> > Is there any function like GetValueBoolean, GetValueString for
> > reading registry keys?
> >
> > Or should I use CType for conversion ?
> >
> >
> > Cheers.
> > Gultekin.
> > --