I have this plugin-based application where one of the plugins, it's supposed to change IE proxy settings. I'm doing this via registry, and all the values are changed according to the real settings. The keys/values I changed are the ones that IE changes when you enable/disable the proxy server as I took screenshots of both the registry states, before and after applying a proxy server.
However, this is not really working. As I said, the values change (to enable or disable depending on what we want) but the checkbox on Internet Explorer settings doesn't change. Well, if the proxy is really enabled and I want to disable it, it works, the checkbox is unmarked, but if the checkbox is not marked and I try to enable it with my code, all values change but the checkbox remains unchecked.
Here's the code:
Public Sub EnableProxy()
If objHost.DirectConnection = False Then
Dim regKey As RegistryKey
regKey = Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey("Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings", True)
regKey.SetValue("ProxyEnable", True, RegistryValueKind.DWord)
regKey.SetValue("ProxyServer", objHost.ProxyAddress.ToString + ":" + objHost.ProxyPort.ToString, RegistryValueKind.String)
If objHost.BypassLocal Then
regKey.SetValue("ProxyOverride", "<local>", RegistryValueKind.String)
Else
regKey.DeleteValue("ProxyOverride", False)
End If
regKey.Close()
Else
MessageBox.Show("Networkcher is currently not configured to use a proxy server. " + ControlChars.CrLf + _
"Please open Network Switcher settings dialog and configure the proxy server.", "Missing proxy settings", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Exclamation)
End If
End Sub
Public Sub DisableProxy()
Dim regKey As RegistryKey
regKey = Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey("Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings", True)
regKey.SetValue("ProxyEnable", False, RegistryValueKind.DWord)
regKey.Close()
End Sub
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I have this plugin-based application where one of the plugins, it's supposed to change IE proxy settings. I'm doing this via registry, and all the values are changed according to the real settings. The keys/values I changed are the ones that IE changes when you enable/disable the proxy server as I took screenshots of both the registry states, before and after applying a proxy server.
However, this is not really working. As I said, the values change (to enable or disable depending on what we want) but the checkbox on Internet Explorer settings doesn't change. Well, if the proxy is really enabled and I want to disable it, it works, the checkbox is unmarked, but if the checkbox is not marked and I try to enable it with my code, all values change but the checkbox remains unchecked.
Here's the code:
I would really appreciate any help on this...
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