Hi,

It would be appreciated if I could get some guidance on where to research further incorporating license key enablement for a WinForms application. That is incorporating those key concepts you see often such as:

- 30 day trial
- need license key to unlock the application beyond this
- possibly the ability to unlock power user functionality using this appraoch

What is the normal approach people use to achieve this? Is it possible just using VS2008 Pro edition for example, or are their well know libraries that help out? Would be nice to think there were "client libraries" out there that let you incorporate this relatively easily into one's Windows Forms app.

In my case it's a C# WinForms app.

Thanks

The shareware starter kit has everything you need. Limited trial licenses, license verification, license activation, online payments.

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Hans Passant.

The shareware starter kit has everything you need. Limited trial licenses, license verification, license activation, online payments.

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Hans Passant.

Hello callagga,

You can also have a look at the following article.

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/Trial_Maker.aspx

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