Max Wanadoo
max.wanadoo at gmail.com
Tue Aug 25 14:34:15 CDT 2009
Charlotte, With code, you can do anything you want to do, whenever, for whoever. All without writing to a Registry or a .ini file. That's all I am saying. Lets say on the FE you have code which registers itself with the BE and the BE holds values to indicate, for example. 1.How many installed copies it will allow and details of these. 2. Howe many concurrent users are permitted and logs them on/off as they connect to it. Code to inform the users of what is happening (ie, sorry you have exceeded the licenced concurrent users, please log off". 3. Expirary date, renewal date, oh endless stuff. And so on. Max -----Original Message----- From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust Sent: 25 August 2009 01:41 To: Discussion concerning Visual Basic and related programming issues. Subject: Re: [dba-VB] What OS for .Net dev We're talking .Net here, Max. Commercial applications. We do NOT want them to install this on every machine they own, only licensed copies. Their mdbs may be SQL Server and their admins have access to the data, even though the users can't get there. It's a little more complicated than it sounds. When the app was in Access, we did something in the mdbs. That is obsolete these days (can you say Citrix?), so we have to move with the times. Charlotte Foust -----Original Message----- From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Max Wanadoo Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 4:28 PM To: 'Discussion concerning Visual Basic and related programming issues.' Subject: Re: [dba-VB] What OS for .Net dev As I keep saying, put it in User Defined Properties in the FE and BE - cannot be beaten - travels with the MDB and no way of seeing it. Encrypt it too if you want. No Registry, no .ini, no visible signs. Max _______________________________________________ dba-VB mailing list dba-VB at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-vb http://www.databaseadvisors.com