What would you recommend to do me for licensing ?

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I will sell components for .Net , and i need to protect my product. In your opinion, what should i do?

Posted 9-Jan-13 4:17am

thoahn

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joshrduncan2012 9-Jan-13 10:24am

What do you mean "protect your product"? That is a broad term. Do you want to ssl your product, if so, digital signature certs are a recommendation.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 9-Jan-13 10:30am

You are right. But... please see my answer.

SSL has nothing to do with protection. They protect users from phishing, not publishers. (Well, there is also a user certificate, I did not mean it, it's rarely used.)

—SA

joshrduncan2012 9-Jan-13 10:36am

Thanks SA!

Abhishek Pant 9-Jan-13 11:48am

well ,Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov explained very well below ;If you still want you can use installshield(full version) to make your setup of your products!

thoahn 10-Jan-13 1:31am

So, should i use installer that helps licensing (register key , product key ,etc.) ?

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2013-01-09T04:28:00

Everything written for .NET can be reverse-engineered easily enough, due to the nature of CIL and .NET. There are reverse-engineering programs; and authors claim that each and every well-known protection product is not a problem for them. I can understand why.

I seriously recommend you to consider working without any protection. If some your user is a regular user, you won't really loose anything, but the fair use will be easy. If the user is a pirate, you have no a chance to withstand. Or you can use some really light protection, to filter out only those who would just make a couple of copies for friends without any efforts. At the same time, protection is a serious hassle for development and testing, and it is always at least some hassle for the fair use, so it will repel some users.

You can compensate it by providing service and other incentives for registered users.

At least, think about all that.

—SA

Ranjan.D · Answer 2 · 2013-01-09T04:27:00

Solution 1

Hi,

You can give a try with http://licenser.codeplex.com/[^]

More Info: Refer my blog http://ranjandotnet.blogspot.in/[^]

Posted 9-Jan-13 4:27am

Ranjan.D