Who doesn’t love this (unsourced) quote from Margaret Mead: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” It sounds so right, certainly something that we desire to be true, or is it?
RegEnumKeyEx seems simple enough. Open the parent key, call RegEnumKeyEx specifying dwIndex=0, then increment dwIndex and call RegEnumKeyEx until you get ERROR_NO_MORE_ITEMS. There are, however, two caveats in the documentation that are easy to overlook.
Here’s a quick introduction to HRESULTS and Win32 Error Codes. There are essentially three steps. Get the error, Convert the error, and Look up the error.
When you build a binary with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 and select to generate a program database, a MSPDBSRV.exe process is spawned. MSPDBSRV generates the PDB (and copies it to the output folder?), then stays running until it is explicitly terminated or the system shuts down. In most cases, you can completely ignore MSPDBSRV.exe and MSPDB80.dll and MSPDBCORE.dll that support it.
.NET Regular Expressions Reference and Samples
