Clickonce, Date Installed

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I would like a Beta copy of my software to expire after seven days from
install. I use Clickonce for installing my applications.

How can I determine the install date of a Clickonce application.
--
Kenneth Lemieux
Project Engineer
Whelen Engineering Co., Inc.

[Miro]

Ken Lemieux wrote:

I would like a Beta copy of my software to expire after seven days from
install. I use Clickonce for installing my applications.

How can I determine the install date of a Clickonce application.

You can try something simple, and on the first run write the date into
the my.settings value.

then just check the date to see when 7 days has elapsed.

An uninstall and re-install will clear this 7 days setting however.

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Thanks Miro,

Your implementation is simple and straight forward. If I don't get any
responces much different from yours, then I will credit you for the responce.
--
Kenneth Lemieux
Project Engineer
Whelen Engineering Co., Inc.
"Miro" wrote:

Ken Lemieux wrote:

I would like a Beta copy of my software to expire after seven days from
install. I use Clickonce for installing my applications.

How can I determine the install date of a Clickonce application.

You can try something simple, and on the first run write the date into
the my.settings value.

then just check the date to see when 7 days has elapsed.

An uninstall and re-install will clear this 7 days setting however.

[Jeffrey Tan[MSFT]]

Hi Kenneth,

I agree that using My.Setting is a good way to save the software
installation time since there is the .Net Framework build-in support.
Another way may be storing it in the registry, but this may require more
..Net registry writting permission than My.Setting.

The problem I wanted to point out is the security of this solution. Once
the end user knows about where your software My.Setting configure file is
stored, it is easy for him to modify your saved date in that file and
cheats your software from thinking it did not expire.

So, I would recommend you to use .Net crypto classes to encrypt the date
before saving. This will provide a basic protection for your solution.
Please refer to "System.Security.Cryptography" section in the article below
for basic information regarding .Net Cryptography:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/is...rityBriefs/#S6

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
Jeffrey Tan
Microsoft Online Community Support
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[Jeffrey Tan[MSFT]]

Hi Kenneth,

Have you reviewed the replies to you? Do they make sense to you? If you
still have any concern or need any help, please feel free to tell me,
thanks.

Best regards,
Jeffrey Tan
Microsoft Online Community Support
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