Chapter 10. Accessing the Windows Registry
Applications often need to save configuration data about themselves. This might include the install directory path, the location of a remote server, or whether or not certain functionality is turned on. Companies often choose to store this information in the Windows Registry. To that end, Windows Installer lets you read and write to the Registry at install time.
In this chapter, we'll discuss the following topics:
Reading data stored in the Registry
Writing to the Registry
Performing miscellaneous tasks in the Registry such as setting user permissions for registry keys
