Creating a license key for your software...

Question

How can I create a licensing key for my software in Visual Studio?
Since most of the projects I worked was SaaS, I never searched for it.
Any help would be very appreciated :)

Answer 1

Keep in mind, a dedicated person will crack your licensing, so no point in licensing your apps unless they are really big and important to you, to the point where you can lose money.

Answer 2

Good point. Always keep the effort/benefit ratio in mind. :D

Answer 3

That's nothing Visual Studio solves. A licence key is a authorization (usually time discrete) for an single (sometimes limited number of) installation (or even runtime) instance. So it is a function from evironment to bool. How to implement this is your problem. You can create unique setups (compile them for their each download with a unique identifier), or use special environment keys (like hardware serial numbers), or ... It's up to you.

Answer 4

Thanks for your contribution :)

Answer 5

Thanks for your contribution :)
And yes, I really need to do it, or I will lost money :)