Populating List from Registry error:

[RighteousDude]

Hi,

I'm pulling my hair out with this one, I need to populate a combobox with a list of servers from the registry, I think the code I've used is fairly sound, but when I run the project, I get the following error, which I'm sure you're all familiar with Null Reference Exception was Unhandled Object Reference not set to an instance of an object

private void Login_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string strKey = @"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Datasym UK\Stockade SQL\Server List";

//if (IntPtr.Size == 8)
//{
// strKey = @"SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server";
//}

RegistryKey rkSqlServer = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(strKey);
string[] instances = rkSqlServer.GetValue("InstalledInstances")[/COLOR]
as string[];
if (instances.GetUpperBound(0) >= 0)
{
foreach (string element in instances)
if (element == "MSSQLSERVER")
{
lstServers.Items.Add(Environment.MachineName);
}
else
{
lstServers.Items.Add(Environment.MachineName + @"\" + element);
}

}
}

As anyone any ideas as to where I may be going wrong?

Thanks,

R

[LizR]

instead of getvalue - which returns a single value and as you specified no default option, if not found, it would return null..

Do you not mean getsubkeynames?