Installing Font programmatically using C# without rebooting the system

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Hi friends,
Please help me to provide a good solution for this. How to install a font permanently in your system programmatically, using C#. I want the font immediately available in Windows Fonts folder, without system reboot. I googled a lot, but no luck. I found AddFontResource from msdn and tried that, but that also not reflecting properly. Also SendMessage after AddfontResource hangs the system sometimes.
So, currently i opt a COPY function which will copy the font into fonts folder, and later adding the font entry in Regristry executing a batch file.
But, then the font is available from next system logon only.

What i'm missing here.

thanks in advance.

Posted 21-Dec-11 16:50pm

Lijo Sebastian

Updated 4-Oct-16 5:34am

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Solution 1

Are you tried this??
Here[^]

Posted 21-Dec-11 16:57pm

Rajesh Anuhya

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Lijo Sebastian 22-Dec-11 2:13am

@Rajesh: thanks for your reply. Yes i did an attempt your link. It only works for the current session. If the User reboots the system, the font wont be available. So, what i'm trying to do is get the font in Fonts folder, so that it would persist for ever. I would be glad if you got any further info regarding this. Thanks.

Solution 5

Registry keys my ass..

I spend hours searching registry keys fo;

C#

RegOpenKeyEx(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, "SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Fonts", 0, KEY_ALL_ACCESS, &hkey);

Does not exist?

Posted 17-Jul-14 22:52pm

Kevheathfield

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Lijo Sebastian · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-18T19:43:00

Solution 3

I achieved same doing this:
XCOPY font file into system fonts folder using cmd prompt.
Adding font entry in registry Fonts folder.

Then my font was immediately available without restarting the machine.

Posted 18-Apr-13 19:43pm

Lijo Sebastian