Embedding Software Registration Info in Win Registry

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If there is a better group for this, please tell me.
From time to time, ex-students contact me with questions that prove the old
adage "Those who cannot do, teach". I'm always pleased to see how quickly
they progress after graduating. Here's a case in point :-)
<quote>
I am developing an application that could ultimately be put on the
commercial market, using Visual Basic 2008. I would like to have a
registration (licensing) event during installation that would write the
license inputs from the user into the registry during installation, and as
an option, allow the user to add registration information at a later time,
again placing the information in the registry...
</quote>
He goes on to further explain what, in essence, is a common scenario for
shareware or trialware: use for a limited time then licensing is required.
He also mentions that he plans to use C# for the same type of thing at a
later date, so I think he is looking for a solution that is .NET based, not
unique to VB.

If you know of any good articles, or even samples that address techniques
for this, he and I would be very grateful.
 
Gillard said:
http://www.codeproject.com
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Right. And I should have said that I'd already searched in "all the usual
places". I found one VB article in Code Project, but it was from VS .NET
2003 and not directly applicable. The rest all seemed to be C++.
Perhaps I'm not seeing what you're seeing, so if I'm missing good articles,
could you point them out? Thanks.
 
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