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I have a program I've been developing in VB 2005 express and I want to create a customized setup wizard and use an obfuscator tool when I deploy it. My question is- can I use the VS 2005/2008 at university to do this or is it against Microsoft rules.
If it does go against MS, is there any way they can find the origin of the VB version it was deployed on?
I'm in the UK by the way.
What is the question here?
Is it about using an Academic Edition of Visual Studio for non-academic purposes? If so I suggest reading the EULA you agreed to by using it. This wouldn't be "against MS" so much as being "going against your own word."
If you never had to see and agree to a EULA then the university may be at fault here, but I doubt that gets you off the hook since you were granted use as a student.
If you are using an Express Edition that's another matter. I'm sure it has its own EULA spelling out any usage restrictions in the UK though.
Is it possible to detect the the serial number of the application a VB program was developed/deployed with?
I don't think so because as soon as your edit and save the project on another computer the serial will change. Although, you could save the information to a text file, etc to be read by the program later on. Although, just how this is do in vb.net I am not sure.