[AccessD] Registration routine for a commercially-sold Access app?

Bobby Heid bheid at appdevgrp.com
Mon Jun 9 14:26:30 CDT 2003


Hi,

I can't help you with your basic problem, but I recommend that you do not
use a registry entry unless you validate that entry with something else.
This is mainly because there are several apps out there that will watch to
see which files/registry entries are used by an application.

HTH,
Bobby

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Christopher
Hawkins
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 3:13 PM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [AccessD] Registration routine for a commercially-sold Access
app?


I need to come up with a registration/licensing routine for an Access
app that a client of mine will be selling.  Basically, my client is
concerned about one customer distributing the application to others.

I want to roll my own algorithm, but then it occurred to me there
might be a better way.  Right now I'm experimenting with validating
the app against the hard drive serial number, but that's fraught with
shortcomings.  I'm also thinking about using an obscure registry key. 

Who's had to come up registration methods before, and how did you do
it?

-Christopher-

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