programmatically merge .reg file into win32 registry

Question

What\'s the best way to programmatically merge a .reg file into the registry? This is for unit testing; the .reg file is a test artifact which will be added then removed at

Answer 1

I looked into it by checking out my file associations.

It seems that a .reg file is just called as the first parameter to the regedit.exe executable on Windows.

So you can just say regedit.exe "mytest.reg". What I'm not sure of is how to get rid of the dialog box that pops up that asks for your confirmation.