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Require a serial number for installation

Hi all,

many commercial apps require that a serial number is
entered during its installation. Does anyone know how
I can duplicate this behaviour in my applications during
the installation phase.

Many thanks,

Jason.
Nov 21 '05 #1
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* ja***@no-spam.dive-master.org (Jason L James) scripsit:
many commercial apps require that a serial number is
entered during its installation. Does anyone know how
I can duplicate this behaviour in my applications during
the installation phase.


You will find some information about the .NET licensing features here:

<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconlicensingcomponentscontrols.asp>
<URL:http://windowsforms.net/articles/Licensing.aspx>

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M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>
Nov 21 '05 #2
Herfried,

these example look at licensing components. I would like
to have the user enter a valid serial number when they
install an application like you have to when installing
MS Office for example, and check to make sure that it
is a valid license code. I thought that there was a way to
do this during the installation of the app.

Any thoughts?

Jason.

On 09 Sep 2004 08:53:40 +0200, hi***************@gmx.at (Herfried K.
Wagner [MVP]) wrote:
* ja***@no-spam.dive-master.org (Jason L James) scripsit:
many commercial apps require that a serial number is
entered during its installation. Does anyone know how
I can duplicate this behaviour in my applications during
the installation phase.


You will find some information about the .NET licensing features here:

<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconlicensingcomponentscontrols.asp>
<URL:http://windowsforms.net/articles/Licensing.aspx>

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>


Nov 21 '05 #3

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