Re: Controversial question re: Turbo and .Net

Eric Grange wrote:

You can easily backup the portion of the registry that you want
using command line parameters to regedit.

Come on, how many users do that?

How many users backup their files at all?

Your application could easily do it as a menu option. Or you could provide shortcut on the Start Menu that simply launches a batch file.

And that backup, if you didn't have a specific registry backup for your
particular application,

If I'm understanding you correctly, this isn't an argument. Because I was saying that it is easy to create a specific registry backup for your particular application. And restoring can be either another batch file with command line options to regedit or simply double-clicking the backup. It's a .reg file that causes regedit to launch and prompt the user whether to import into the registry.

Remote Registry Service is a life-saver because the registry
is such a life-threatening point of fragility...

Ok, I can't argue with that. I agree 100%.

with Remote Registry, it's a cumbersome, error-prone hell.

I still don't agree with that. I can connect to multiple remote registries at the same time, and easily export/import registry branches between them. It's not quite as convenient as copy/paste, but it's no more error-prone or hellish than file administration.

Once again, I /hate/ the registry, particularly for anything application specific. But I've learned how to work with it efficiently and safely, because frankly I don't have a choice. Except with my own applications, of course.

Jon
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