>>>I am trying to read ODBC information from the registry (specifically I'm trying to obtain the SourceDB) using the Registry.Vcx in VFP6.
>>>However I'm not havy much luck - can anyone help?
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>>I found the VFP Registry class to be confusing and hard to use. I use Rick Strahl's free registry class to do this. He includes plenty of comments in the class. See free utilities
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>I've made a bit more progress since I posted the original question. I now can read in a value but only from the HKEY_CURRENT_USER. Do you know if there is anyway to change the root that it's pointing at?
>I'd like to try and use this class before admitting defeat and using something else.

The first parameter passed is the Key. In my constants definitions, I have:

#DEFINE HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT           -2147483648  && (( HKEY ) 0x80000000 )
#DEFINE HKEY_CURRENT_USER           -2147483647  && (( HKEY ) 0x80000001 )
#DEFINE HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE          -2147483646  && (( HKEY ) 0x80000002 )
#DEFINE HKEY_USERS                  -2147483645  && (( HKEY ) 0x80000003 )

Then I just pass one of these constants to the API.