Pulling up the registry in Dot net

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From: Larry Killen
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:48

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I need to get a value from the registry to connect to MSDE.  I am using the 
BDP connector but will not know the Server name until run time.  I do not 
use Local for other reasons so I always connect to the server 
MachineName\DatabaseName

in D-7 that would be   MACHINE_NAME_KEY = 
'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ComputerName\ComputerName';
with the HKEY as   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE    = $80000002;

How can I do this and stay a Dot Net purist;
Thanks

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