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Which number cast is a registry Dword in vb?

Which number cast is a registry Dword in vb based on its minimum and max values?

I am trying to build an editor that can read and edit registry dumps

Solution

  • For VB.Net, you should use the Integer data type. See this handy list for details on the available datatypes. In older Visual Basic, you would have used the long data type.

    This has the proper number of bits (32; an x86 DWORD is a "double word", where a word is understood to be 16-bit), but I think there's a slight problem with VB not supporting "unsigned" values. This limitation might make presentation/editing a bit more complicated.