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Reduce allocations during VsAppDomaiinManager.BindingPaths#9891

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Each call to the .net fx implementation of RegistryKey.GetValueNames allocates a 32KB array here , resulting in the VsAppDomaiinManager.BindingPaths allocating nearly ~30 MB of char arrays in one of our speedometer tests.

Instead, use an approach more like what net core does here , utilizing the ERROR_MORE_DATA return value to resize and re-call RegEnumValue.

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Each call to the .net fx implementation of RegistryKey.GetValueNames allocates a 32KB array [here](https://github.com/microsoft/referencesource/blob/ec9fa9ae770d522a5b5f0607898044b7478574a3/mscorlib/microsoft/win32/registrykey.cs#L1084) , resulting in the VsAppDomaiinManager.BindingPaths allocating ~1.5MB of char arrays.

Instead, use an approach more like what net core does [here](https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/f27c573c56e7aa280f519770b0678305a70442ae/src/libraries/System.Private.CoreLib/src/Internal/Win32/RegistryKey.cs#L146) , utilizing the ERROR_MORE_DATA return value to resize and re-call RegEnumValue.
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@ToddGrun dotnet-project-system is now in devops, could you please resubmit the pr there?

@phenning phenning closed this Mar 17, 2026
@drewnoakes drewnoakes deleted the dev/toddgrun/RegistryKeyGetValueNamesAllocations branch March 20, 2026 01:56
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