net472_EventLogHelper.Interfaces_IRegistryReader

IRegistryReader interface

Provides an abstraction layer for reading from and validating access to the Windows Registry.

public interface IRegistryReader

Members

name	description
GetDefaultEventLogSource(…)	Attempts to determine a default event source for the specified event log.
HasRegistryAccess(…)	Verifies whether the current user has sufficient permissions to access a registry key.
SubKeyExists(…)	Checks whether a specific registry subkey exists under the given hive and path.

Remarks

The IRegistryReader interface decouples registry operations from direct calls to Registry. This enables safer, more testable code by allowing registry access to be mocked or replaced in unit tests without requiring actual machine registry modifications.

Implementations typically wrap RegistryKey APIs, but custom implementations may return simulated results for testing security scenarios (e.g., missing permissions, missing keys).

See Also

• namespace EventLogHelper.Interfaces
• assembly EventLogHelper
• IRegistryReader.cs