How to make installer with serial number for my application?
Help please!
gogs85 0 Junior Poster in Training
CriticalError
This might help:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/453030/how-can-i-create-a-product-key-for-my-c-sharp-app
You will also need Visual Studio Professional if you want to do something like that. Since VB Includes Installer Project.
Besides that make an algorithm and apply it to your program, there should be some examples on the web.
skatamatic 371 Practically a Posting Shark
A really basic way would be to hash their input key and compare it with a constant hash key. It's important to keep the constant key hashed so that the actual key can't be determined.
MD5 is a pretty decent hashing algorithm you could check out. There's lots of other (much more secure) ones out there as well.
kolibrizas commented: An easy and nice approach to the problem :) +3
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