Thank you ! That's exactly what the problem was. I think I either need to take a break or open up another can of Red Bull. Thanks Mattias ! :)
-Pete -----Original Message----- From: dotnet discussion [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mattias Sjögren Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 5:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [DOTNET] Registry reading/writing question Peter, > Every time I run this code I get an Unhindered Exception Error (the >exact type is: System.NullReferenceException). After doing some digging I >found out that for some weird reason after the call to OpenSubKey() myKey is >still null. Why is that ? What am I doing wrong ? I don't think the leading backslash should be there, try removing it RegistryKey myKey = rootKey.OpenSubKey("Software\\MyApp", true); Mattias === Mattias Sjögren [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.