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CRegKey::SetStringValue

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Call this method to set the string value of the registry key.

Syntax

LONG SetStringValue(
   LPCTSTR pszValueName,
   LPCTSTR pszValue,
   DWORD dwType = REG_SZ 
) throw( );

Parameters

pszValueName: Pointer to a string containing the name of the value to set. If a value with this name is not already present, the method adds it to the key.
pszValue: Pointer to the string data to be stored with the specified value name.
dwType: The type of the string to write to the registry: either REG_SZ (the default) or REG_EXPAND_SZ (for multistrings).

Return Value

If the method succeeds, the return value is ERROR_SUCCESS. If the method fails, the return value is a nonzero error code defined in WINERROR.H.

Remarks

This method uses RegSetValueEx to write the value to the registry.

Requirements

Header: atlbase.h