Reading from registry from within IE7

[Henk]

Hi,

Is there a way to read a registry key from HKLM from an asp.net page?

regards,
Henk

 

[bruce barker]

only with an active/x control you convince the user to load.

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)

 

[Mark Rae]

Is there a way to read a registry key from HKLM from an asp.net page?

Yeah - it's just next to the option which allows you to format the client's
hard disk...

No of course there isn't - not directly, at least.

You could probably write an ActiveX control / Java applet to do it, if you
could convince any user who was stupid enough to install it...

 

[Henk]

They will install the activeX, that is not the problem, it are customers
that want to run an windows app started from a (intranet) webpage, only is
there the possibilty that they install in any folder they want, and that
location is stored in the registry. If I can read that then I can give that
to the LaunchInIE activeX control et voilla.

I did try an activeX written in .NET 2.0 (winform user control) but keep
getting security errors.

Any a good idee what I am missing?


H.