Create System environment variable in VB

[kottan]

HI,
I want to develop a litle program to create a system environment variable an give it a value.
In vbscript I used the following code:

Set WshShell = Wscript.CreateObject("Wscript.Shell&quot
Set WshEnv = WshShell.Environment("SYSTEM&quot
WshEnv("EXAMPLE&quot= "Test123"

and it works fine.

But now I want to use this functionality in a compiled application in VB and I didn't find a method to do so.
The vbscript code does not run.

Does anybody know how to create environment variables in VB?

Regards

kottan

 

[BillGeake]

Look at the API calls GetEnvironmentStrings, GetEnvironmentVariable and SetEnvironmentVariable. If you find the MSDN documentation too hard on this, rush out and buy Dan Appleman's Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API.

First though, I'd think very hard about whether you really need to be setting environment variables - you might do better using the registry.

Bill.