I will be selling a new product that will be managed by a web application on my own servers. The web application will allow to manage some devices. I would like to limit the amount of managa...

What is/are the difference(s) between these two? And why would I want one or the other or both? This is for a commercial .NET C# WPF application that will be packaged via WiX. I will need a trial l...

I have 2 functions:getLicence() which returns licencekey as string and validateLicence() which returns true if validation successful.I have following requirements I want to create msi installer i...

The documentation for application licensing describes LICENSED_OLD_KEY as meaning: The application is licensed to the user, but there is an updated application version available that is signed w...

In my application users can upgrade their product (from trial to full) using a 32 characters serialnumber. To make it as user friendly as possible for my (paying) customers I would like to be able...

I am currently developing RPC services for developers to use, but would like to make sure that I can distinguish between another app's debug key and their public key. Is there a way to check anothe...

I've been reading about LVL and have implemented it in my app before with a splash screen checking the license.. but I'm sure you could've guessed it was easily cracked. I'm not trying to secure my...

I'm developing a .Net class library (a data provider) and I'm starting to think about how I would handle licensing the library to prospective purchasers. By licensing, I mean the mechanics of...

I'm sure this is fairly basic, but I don't know quite what to search on to get a concise tutorial. I want to create an app and make it downloadable on the Android Market for free. Then, I want to c...

We currently use Rad Studio 2007 and are expecting to upgrade to Delphi XE soon! Does anybody know how we can see what the serial number was used when installing Rad Studio 2007? Regards, Pieter ...

I have a piece of software with different unlockable modules. Each module has to be purchased separately. I've started with assigning a unique key to each module via Guid.NewGuid method. Now...

Are there any good ways to limit the number of times an application can start or limit how long it can be used for under Windows 7 and using C#? As far as I can see the registry can be easily edit...

Any recommendations for an open source (free) C# library/application for a C# Windows Application that could be used for: (a) creating license/product keys and (b) has library that can be use...

I'm interested to find out whether there are any standards or resources that you can recommend for developing license models in C#?

This is not a real situation; please ignore legal issues that you might think apply, because they don't. Let's say I have a set of 200 known valid license keys for a hypothetical piece of so...

This is just to keep honest customer honest.

I am about to deliver an Adobe AIR app to a customer. But it's my first delivery of any sort, I.e. I have no experience whatsoever with licensing etc. Users of this app may or may not be online, s...