Application Licensing / Protection Solutions
Nov 4, 2009
I have up until recently developed only in-house custom applications and I have never had a need to protect this software with any type of licensing/ protection mechanisms.I'm now working on a new project for a software app that I plan on distributing to a relatively small number of clients (1000 or so) and I need to consider some type of licensing/software protection solution that I can easily integrate into my application.I'm also looking for specific product recommendations (if possible) based on users experiences. With vast assortment of product offerings out there, I'm having a very hard time wading through them all.
I would like to stick with a software option over a hardware dongle type solutions so that I can make distribution and activation as painless as possible for my customers¦but would consider hardware options if need be.I have tried the KeyLOK hardware evaluation kit but it seems to be a little difficult to implement and it would force my customers to wait days before they could initially activate and use my application. [code] License registration and tracking via Internet..Software distribution is very controlled and it's not a techie type user audience, so hacking is not a major concern but I would like to protect the application as much as possible.
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Oct 5, 2009
How we create a licensing system for a vb 2008 solution to protect it from unauthorized access? Is there any code to generate a unique system id to identify a machine like CPU ID etc.?
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Mar 15, 2010
I have a vb program that is closed source free program. I am using a CONSOLE PROGRAM licensed under the GPL license. This is not GPL source code, but an actual GPL app.(I am using process.start to run it) and I was wondering if there is a licensing incompatibility or something. I am clueless on licensing. Would I just have to include a license file with it, or would I have to release the code, or what.
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Jan 6, 2011
I installed my old Visual Basic programmes in Windows 7 and I have two problems.
1- VB itself which apparently is not compatible.
2- I used some controls which are not supported anymore but I used vbusc.exe for Windows XP and it worked. Now for Win7 what can I do?
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Feb 5, 2008
I want to buy a license manager. I have read about these 2 products (from his web) but I don't know which is better. which you recommend to me?
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Apr 30, 2012
I have created an Excel Ribbon Addin that has some custom features that will benefit a relatively small business niche. The target companies number less than 1,000.I don't want to limit any one company's usage of the Addin...meaning I want them to be able to install and use the Addin as often as they need to, for as long as they need to, on as many computers as they need to.
The thing I want to prevent is sharing of the Addin. There are family members in this industry, that own different companies in different parts of the country...there are close friends in this industry that each own different companies. I want each company to purchase the Addin instead of share it.I have created a License Agreement that they have to agree to before the Addin is installed. But, that is as far as I have gone with it at this point.So, this leads me to 2 questions:
1. Is it worth the investment and effort to create this type of limitation for such a small market?
2. If so, what is the best way to go about accomplishing this?
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Jun 26, 2009
I need to reformat my HD and will lose everything, including my VB stuff. I can't positively identify all of it's contents/shared folders/assciated files, etc so as to back it all up. I would like to know how difficult will it be to simply reinstall all of the software from MS, concerning the registration/licensing/activation process? Or will I just have to start w/a new copy/registration/licensing ,etc? By the way, I am talking about "Express Editions"
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Jan 23, 2012
I am already using Light Switch. When i am trying to deploy it is asking license information. If i buy a Enterprice license key then how many programs i can deploy with that same license? I am sorry for the noob question but i can not find anything details about Light Switch licensing.
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Sep 28, 2011
I�m trying to implement a licensing schema for a template that uses the follow code snippet. (using VS2010 vb.net4)
<LicenseProviderAttribute(GetType(RegistryLicenseProviderSave)), _
GuidAttribute("2de915e1-df71-3443-9f4d-32259c92ced2")> _
Public Class Form1main
��. Form code etc.
End Class
I need to utilize the GUID value in other classes within my application, as an example, as making registry entries.My goal is to have this editable at only 1 place in the template.I�ve created a Friend class that has the GUID string in it, but I�m unable to get the above to recognize the string. I�m sure that the code is simple, but it evades me.I would really like to do is to access the Guid that VS2010 vb.net creates (Project->Application->Assembly) shows and insert it into my application.
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Jun 18, 2011
I have a VB.NET 4.0 based solution (just one project) in Web Forms and needs quick conversion of the whole solution to C#.
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Mar 19, 2011
In our database we have gigantic tables (it was initially built 20 years ago). We are on the process of developing it.
Some tables contain rowversion and optimistic concurrency. We were wondering if there is a way to just correspond rowversion to the modification of some specific columns, but not all of them. In Normal Case, T-SQL which is generated then would be huge.
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Mar 25, 2009
what is the correct way to archive my work? That sound pretty dumb. Let me try again. I begin a new project and design a form and then start adding code then save my work.Tomorrow I want to make changes to the project an design - how do I save and keep track of my form and code versions?
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Sep 1, 2010
I have an issue with globalising my application settings.I have 5 Projects in one solution and I all 5 of my projects use the same connection string to connect to the DB.before I had added any additional projects, I could control this quite easily from the settings designer (Project > Project Properties > Settings) this will work well for one project.How can I share my settings across to all projects, and if the connection string is modified, save it back to the settings file.does VB support settings at the Solution Level?
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Oct 14, 2010
I've got a StartUp project (StartupProjectA) in Visual Studio that references projects A, B and C. I've got all of those in SolutionA.My predecessor has previously added this solution to SourceSafe so that there's a SolutionA folder in SourceSafe, containing a StartupProjectA folder, and A folder, a B folder and a C folder.
It turns out, though, that StartupProjectB and StartupProjectC all live in the same directory as StartupProjectA on the local machine, so on the PC I'm using I have a [GeneralSolution] folder which contains a StartupProjectA folder, a StartupProjectB folder, a StartupProjectC folder, and A folder, a B folder and a C folder.My question is what do I do to get the Solutions for StartupProjectB and StartupProjectC into SourceSafe? I've tried adding them, but they all create their own copies of folders A, B and C. What have I missed?
I'm trying to use the Visual Studio SourceSafe integration to get these solutions into SourceSafe. Doing so creates multiple redundant copies of A, B and C. I would like to have one folder in SourceSafe, containing SPA, SPB, SPC, A, B and C folders. I'm not really sure how to do this, because I can only add entire Solutions to SourceSafe via Visual Studio. There's no option that I can see for "Add this folder to SourceSafe and recognise that these other three folders are already referenced in the repository and so don't need to be added."
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Feb 11, 2010
All the refactoring tools for C# and VB.Net that I have seen only consider the source code in a single visual studio solution.For better or worse, our large (many related programs) system is spread over many solution files, however:All the code is below a single windows folder. Our nAnt based build system, builds all files in a windows folder to produce a single dll (bit more complex then this but not important for this question).Therefore ALL ".cs" and ".vb" files below the single root folder are part of the system.
So I am looking for refactoring and reverse engineering tools that take a single folder as input and act on all files below that folder.(The tools may need some help to decide what "public" and "internal" means, however most of the time "internal" means "in the same code tree" when a "code tree" is a folder that contains code and any child folders.)Now I am being greedy, I would like the tools to create a lot of all the refactorings that have been done and to be able to replay the refactorings. Then I could try out ideal and if they work, throw away my code, get the latest code, you do the refactorings and checkin the code before anyone else changes the files. (Likewise for when branches need merging)
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Apr 26, 2011
Email to send picture error on my solutions?
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Jun 1, 2011
i have tried googling this and cant find a way to do this, i hav 2 projects in the same solutions, i am trying to write a bit for Solution1_Project1_Form1 to open a windowsForm in Solution1_Project2_Form2.
Start main application & View 2nd application FROM within the main application.
Start the 2nd application WITHOUT using the main application.
both applications need to read and write to a database, i dont think this makes a big diferance but thought i would mention it
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Sep 24, 2011
basicly i had to format my computer, so i needed to reinstall Office 2010 and VS2010, but now my solutions wont load, VS isn't giving much information about it apart form its a object refrence equalls null, but i dont have a clue where to start as it happening before the form load. this is all the information i can give.
An error occurred creating the form. See Exception.InnerException for details. The error is: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.System.InvalidOperationException{"An error occurred creating the form. See Exception.InnerException for details. The error is: Object reference not set to an instance of an object."}i have tried cleaning, rebuilding, build solutions and none is helping, if any1 can think of anything else to try please say, another option would be Their is a bit of software call teamviewer that i use, if anyone would be willing to download it and instal it, it would give them the ability to controll my computer to have a look and see what has went wrong.
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Jan 26, 2010
In VB2010 Beta 2, after program development, how do I deploy (or create a solution to), programs I have written? Also, how can I change the folder where VB 2010 looks for my help documentation Hope someone can help. I've been an on-again off-again programmer for years, but 2010 just makes my head spin a little...
As far as the solution creation, I've already tried clicking on Project-->Publish, which more or less seems like it wants to upload to a website rather than be stuck on my HD... I don't want to upload to the web;the whole reason I want to export is that I want to think I remember at one time having read something about the about box labels only displaying the new information you stick in them once the program has been turned into a .exe file, but I'm not sure; although now that I've run into this problem of creating solutions, even w/ this little bit of a program (nowhere near complete, something like a sure-to-be-crappy-take on Mass Effect 2.. it's primarily text based); heck, for that matter just about all I write programs for is because "hey.. it's enjoyable... umm... kind of" -- I originally started in college as a Computer Science major, switched to Music, transferred schools, the school I transferred to didn't think I had the skills they look for in incoming students, and from there switched to spanish major.
____, just about all I'd be good for is playing music and localization projects (both in and out of the game industry). Not so sure I'll get anywhere, but I said "what the heck, I'll upload my resume to EA".
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Oct 27, 2009
Trying to get some VB practice after a long time rest, but I'm having some issues even getting a new solution open. Ok, I have VB '08 Express on Vista (Visual Studio also installed) and whenever I try to create a new solution I get the following error:[code]Now I've checked the forums and seen that this error has come up a fair bit, but I've tried the couple of suggestions I have seen to no avail.
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Mar 15, 2010
I've been busily working on a solution for my JSP page problem using an AxBrowser instead of a WebBrowser .NET control. However - the problem seems to be that whichever approach I use, the "back to results" button on my work's JSP page produces nothing but an empty white page in the results frame. I've compared keystroke for keystroke in WebBrowser control, AxBrowser, and IE. The in-built solutions all fail, but the standalone IE works perfectly.Might the problem lay in the way the form is handling the processing of the web pages in the in-built solutions? Could it be a problem with Asynchronous processing?If so, would it be advisable to try the WebBrowser control in a BackgroundWorker setup? It must be something to do with my application, since IE processes the form correctly.
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Aug 1, 2011
First of all, I wasn't sure whether this was VB.NET or General Developer content... It's not technically about VB.NET code, but it's not very general either since it is specifically about Visual Studio. Feel free to move it if required.A while back I realized that all of my database connection code was getting very biolerplate. had 'developed' my own method of connecting to an Access database and storing the results. Basically, for each table I create one 'Manager' class and one 'Entity' class. The Entity class represents a single record in the database and has properties for each field.
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Dec 1, 2011
I am working on a C# project, which needs a VB.NET Class library.I have added the DLL reference of VB.NET Project into C# project.This works fine, but sometimes I need to debug the VB.NET project or pause the project and check the variable values of my VB.NET Project.Is it possible in Visual Studio 2010 Express Edition?
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Oct 28, 2010
So I've been working with DotNET for a few years now; long enough to establish solid preferences for one available element over another, one available logic over another, and then to develop preferences for aspects of elements and logics.
The one that conflicts me the most is the stock Settings construct. It's a great idea - I mean everybody needs basic data persistence that isn't worthy of databasing, right? It's implemented in a way that anybody - and I mean anybody from flat beginner to highly advanced - can benefit from it. It does some heinously stupid stuff, though; for example, it angers me (and I mean full-on, where's my crowbar-OK-now where's the silly @#*! who came up with the idea anger) that the only way to save it is the way that's hardcoded in. The .SAVE method takes no parameters, there's absolutely zero exposure for the save-path to provide a more deliberate location, so the only place any settings ever get saved is in a ridiculously long (and literally arbitrarily designated) user-profile-based path.
So what happens if/when a user is ready to upgrade their OS (or just reformat and reinstall their OS, which the kinds of people who end up on my client list are prone to do just as part of quarterly maintenance), and they want to save their personal application settings to load in the next time around? They either have to hunt out that moronically obfuscatory save location or I have to write special (and I mean riding the short-short-short bus special) code which is more or less a whole new settings class identical to the settings classes implemented in the application to begin with, just to allow them to export their settings to a known location for transfer.
And what happens if a specific setting needs special treatment beyond the basic 'changing' and 'changed' events provided by the stock class? Since any change to the Settings Designer rewrites the whole code-behind property declarations, I can't do it in that code file; I either have to extend the Settings class or get back on the short-short-short bus and write that special 'mirror-class' again.
I'm not much for just general whining though, so some time back I wrote my own serializable classes (designed for specific data persistence, like generic/universal application settings and then also MySQL server connections/credentials and then also form properties and then also application-specific settings) along with shared save and load methods which give me more control over where settings get saved. These classes have evolved over the last year or so until they're actually pretty awesome (even if that's
just my opinion)... I've even implemented full on-disk and in-memory encryption functions for applications that need different privilege levels, to prevent any tampering at any time.
And then a multi-user application project comes along and suddenly each individual settings class needs multi-user support based on the Windows user logged in, and suddenly the stock Settings class is the best option again even though it's still the worst possible option in settings persistence.
So what I want to know from this discussion is this:
How do YOU handle application and user-settings persistence? Is there something really key that I've been missing all this time that makes the stock Settings class more than absolutely worthless (which has been my opinion since about the first time I ever had to work with it)?It never hurts to try. In a worst case scenario, you'll learn from it.
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Dec 13, 2009
Im attempting to make a "Licensing" system, but I dont know where to start. I know I would need some sort of "database". Heres the basic idea of what I would like my program to turn out. "License" creator: -I give a "permanent" ID Generator to someone -They get an ID that only works for their computer, and doesnt change unless the computer is changed -They give me their ID -I input the ID into a "database" -Program creates a "License" file using the "permanent" ID Main Program: -Loads the License File -Checks if the License is a valid file (using the database)
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Nov 23, 2010
i have this .xml file read and display at runtime by vb.net2003. the .xml file is the database which contain various data and its not for adding more data or edited by user so i need to protect the file so that my code can read and display those data. can anyone know how to protect the file.
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Dec 4, 2011
I would like to know if removing the following specials character would be enough to protect my program against SQL Injection :
"'/*$%()!#^&
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Mar 13, 2012
I'm getting the error ' ' is not declared.It may be inaccessible due to its protection level with the following code. [code] I tried changing from private sub to Public and adding Imports System.Windows.Forms.TextBox but that didn't fix my problem.
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Apr 13, 2010
i know that NO software is safe from hackers etc... i mean if Windows can be cracked and hacked (developed by possibly worlds most advanced programmers) then hobbyists and small developers have alot to hope for.But is there any way i can increase protection for my vb compiled exe?First of all is there a way to remove ALL comments from my compiled code?Is there a good obfuscrator for vb net 2008 code
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Feb 14, 2011
I'm making a login screen but i couldnt find a way to make textboxes invicebel but useable so i used labels but now the password label doesnt show password protection is there anyway i can give the label ******* pasword protection?
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