Registry in .NET: DeleteSubKeyTree says the subkey does not exists, but hey, it does!
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Hi,
Trying to delete a subkey tree: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.hdr. .hdr subkey has one subkey, no values. So I use this code:
RegistryKey FileExts = Registry.CurrentUser.CreateSubKey("SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\FileExts");
RegistryKey faulty = FileExts.OpenSubKey(".hdr");
Debug.Assert (faulty != null && faulty.SubKeyCount != 0);
faulty.Close();
FileExts.DeleteSubKeyTree(".hdr");
And I get the ArgumentException with message "Cannot delete a subkey tree because the subkey does not exist."
WTF? I checked and asserted it did exist?
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