[RESOLVED] Licensing issue

hi guys!

yet another question :D

we are going to deploy our first application later this week. what we want is to secure it, so that only the authorized person, who bought it can install the application. what we have decided is that, our application genereate a number, depending upon the hardware of the user system [we are looking at hard disk serial number], then we merge this number with the name of the buyer. After that, we generate a license key on this number.

now what i want to know, how can i get the harddiskt number in VB, i searched for it on MSDN but found nothing.

it is not necessary that we must go for the idea, you can give any better suggestion, what we want is that only a person who has bought the software from us can run the INSTALLER and the INSTALLED application.

Moved from Application Deployment forum.

Look at the "A program registration scheme" example in MartinLiss' signature.

You may not want to use the HD's volume serial number as it will change with each reformatting a user does.

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Originally Posted by RobDog888

Moved from Application Deployment forum.

Look at the "A program registration scheme" example in MartinLiss' signature.

You may not want to use the HD's volume serial number as it will change with each reformatting a user does.

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i am not looking for volume serial number, i am looking for the serial number of the hard disk.

the setting that can be viwed at the system startup (BIOS INFO), contains the serial number of the hardDisk when we go in the IDE section. i want to use that serial number

I have found that they are too many variations to use reliably.

http://vbnet.mvps.org/code/disk/smartide.htm

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Originally Posted by dglienna

I have found that they are too many variations to use reliably.

http://vbnet.mvps.org/code/disk/smartide.htm

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hey! .. thank you .. :) i am gonna rate you :wave: