Making my application a startup program?

[Ch0pinZee]

I have just finished writing a program in Visual Basic.NET and would like for it to automatically make itself a startup program (one of the processes that starts automatically when Windows starts) during run time. Is there a way to program this right into the code itself, without having to make an installation file? For example, if I had a button on my form that said "Make me a starup program!", the user can click it and it would execute the necessary code to do this. What exactly would be the code for this button? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Chopinzee

[DSJ]

Just put the EXE or a shortcut to it in the Startup folder.

[Ch0pinZee]

Yes but I don't want the end user to have to copy the program to the startup folder themselves, I want the program to do it automatically during run time.

[usmanibnesadiq]

hi why dont you put the code in a window service and make it start automatically as OS starts. i think its a better option. sorry i had the same idea to copy the exe in Startup folder. anyways

[4461766964]

Alternately you can manually create a new string value registry key in:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\
I would caution that improperly adding an application as a startup item can have harsh and unexpected results. Edit the Windows registry at your own risk.

DS

[Ch0pinZee]

Alternately you can manually create a new string value registry key in:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\
I would caution that improperly adding an application as a startup item can have harsh and unexpected results. Edit the Windows registry at your own risk.

DS

So how do you do this? Like what would the code be for example?

[Ch0pinZee]

Surely someone must know...

[Boumxyz2]

I don't have much time to show you but check that namespace in .NEt

microsoft.Win32

should help you out with the registry.

[1FstZed]

I know in C# the code is as folows

include this using statement using Microsoft.Win32;

create a registry key object

RegistryKey rootkey,pKey,sKey;


then the fun begins the following line is how to open a connection
rootkey = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey("Software", true) this can be any key

once the initial connection is made you have to make the keys in the registry to store you're data

pKey = rootkey.CreateSubKey("KeyName"); this creates a key under Software
sKey = pKey.CreateSubKey("KeyName"); this creates a key under the one created with pKey;

now to set values use the sKey object to create them

sKey.CreateKey("Key Name", (string)Keyvalue);
sKey.CreateKey("Key Name", (int)Keyvalue);
and so on then use

sKey.Close();
pKey.Close();
rootkey.Close();

this is what i have done if any further help is needed email me at jscheibe@cogeco.ca

Josh

[Dorez]

If you don't want to copy the exe to the startup folder, you could create a shortcut to the exe in the startup folder.