Software Protection
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Just finished my first business app using VB.net 2005/SQL2005 and wanted some advice/products to protect it before throwing it into the wild. Looking on the web, there seem many ways to skin a cat, but I though an encryption class in the code to check a .LIC file looked the easiest. I wanted to later set up an online download/purchse/license model once it takes off :rolleyes: so I'm not sure if the two are compatible. What the pro's experiences? I
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Just finished my first business app using VB.net 2005/SQL2005 and wanted some advice/products to protect it before throwing it into the wild. Looking on the web, there seem many ways to skin a cat, but I though an encryption class in the code to check a .LIC file looked the easiest. I wanted to later set up an online download/purchse/license model once it takes off :rolleyes: so I'm not sure if the two are compatible. What the pro's experiences? I
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moldie wrote:
wanted some advice/products to protect it before throwing it into the wild
What do you mean by protect your software?
I mean to protect it from copying. Just like the commercial software you get which gives you a 30 day trail then you have to pay the license fee. I was wondering what the best practice was to "make sure you get your money":) for the thousands of hours of blood and sweat!! -- modified at 6:39 Tuesday 13th June, 2006
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I mean to protect it from copying. Just like the commercial software you get which gives you a 30 day trail then you have to pay the license fee. I was wondering what the best practice was to "make sure you get your money":) for the thousands of hours of blood and sweat!! -- modified at 6:39 Tuesday 13th June, 2006
As far as I know, the trail software will stock its functionality when user open X times or in a specific period (usually 30 days). You might need to count this thing (X time or specific period) with the time in windows or number of open application. These count number usually record in regedit. If you want to work with regedit in vb.net try to read this article[^].