Licensing

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Wayne P.

I posted this in the WindowsForms.com fourms and received no response.
Hopefully someone here can direct me....

I am writing a windows forms application and I want to use the built in
licensing model that ships with .Net. To my understanding, I can do this
because even the windows forms are just classes, and the licensing model is
wrapped around classes.

Obviously the built in LicFileProvider is a very insecure way of protecting
an application, so I would want to override some of the methods for my own
verification - such as a signed xml file.


I have having a hard time understanding the nitty gritty of the licensing
model. I know what it can do, but I am not sure how to use it and how to
modify functionality to my needs. I have read a number articles on the topic
and even watched a MS support webcast about it.

Could someone point me to some easy to digest material on the .Net licensing
model?

TIA!
 
Hi,
I dont know which webcast you saw, but here is one that I did myself. It
is at
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;822680

It has a description of the mechanism of licensing and how it works. There
is also a link in the slides which also has explanations on what is going
on. If you have any speicific questions, then do send it and I can give you
some answers.

Thanks

Anand Balasubramanian
Microsoft, Visual Basic .NET

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