Registry Explorer: Replacement for the Windows Built-In Regedit.exe Tool

Re:Registry Explorer: Replacement for the Windows Built-In R... by userbinator on Saturday July 24, 2021 @08:38PM (#27945618)

Name collision aside, it's always good to see more native Win32 software being written. But the requirements seem to be unexpectedly high:

Build the solution file with Visual Studio 2022 preview. Can be built with Visual Studio 2019 as well (change toolset to v142

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Re:Registry Explorer: Replacement for the Windows Built-In R... by tasogare on Saturday July 24, 2021 @09:46PM (#27945947)

Having VS 2019 (which is free as Community Edition) is not a really high requirement, it's probably already installed by any developer developing on one of the MS stack.

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Re:Registry Explorer: Replacement for the Windows Built-In R... by SamuelAdams on Saturday July 24, 2021 @10:14PM (#27946096)

Yeah if you wanted to you could also probably use VS Code, there is a .vscode directory in the GitHub source code so I imagine the author used that too at some point.

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Re:Registry Explorer: Replacement for the Windows Built-In R... by blt on Saturday July 24, 2021 @09:53PM (#27945983)

Probably the author wanted to use some C++20 feature.

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Re:Registry Explorer: Replacement for the Windows Built-In R... by dataflow on Saturday July 24, 2021 @11:10PM (#27946386)

Are you referring to the run-time requirements, or just compile-time?

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