Some Registry Methods

Here are a couple of helper methods to work with Windows Registry:
The first method makes sure you get a reference to a registry subkey. If it does not exist it creates one first. The second one is a preferred way to read a registry value.

 public static RegistryKey GetKey(string RegKey)

 {

     RegistryKey Key = Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey(RegKey, true);

     if (Key == null)

     {

         Key = Registry.CurrentUser.CreateSubKey(RegKey);

     }

     return Key;

}

public static string ReadRegistryValue(RegistryKey key, string regValName)

{

     string[] values = key.GetValueNames();

     if (values.Contains(regValName))

          return key.GetValue(regValName).ToString();

     else

          return String.Empty;

}