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Back in the day, you use to be able to override an event in VB by using the drop down list in the code window.  Today, I had a friend who is moving from Visual Studio 2003 to Visual Studio 2008 ask me, “How do I override events in VB.NET now?”  All you get in the drop downs now is the event handlers.

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Saturday afternoon I spent trying to get a Windows Forms application to add data to a database.  It all seemed to work correctly.  Add changes, no errors.  Close window, open window.  Yep changes are there.  Close application, re-run application.  Yep, changes still there.  Make a change to the code, re-run.  No data.

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Q. I’m trying to write to HKLM on a Vista computer using the following code:

Dim k As Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey
k = Microsoft.Win32.Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(“software”, True)
k = k.CreateSubKey(“subkey1\testprogram”)
k.SetValue(“foo”, “bar”)

But, when I get to the last line, the UnauthorizedAccessException is thrown.  How do I fix this?

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