Securing WinForms Application suggestions
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I've been looking for a simple key/license system for our users. Its partly to stop piracy (avoid users from sharing the application around) and the other half to track the number of 'licensed users' we have. I have already read a few good suggestions on SO but I'm curious as to how people have implemented the 30 day evaluation criteria.
Do you generate a key that stores the date somewhere and do a comparison each time or is it a little more complicated - deleting the file/removing the registry shouldn't deactivate.
Are there any example implementations out there that can give me a head start? The irony is that our PM doesn't want to license a third-party system to do it for us.
This is for a Windows Forms application.
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