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I intend to use the Infralution Licensing System on the Compact Framework with a program in the cost range of $10-$20.
Does this work with both Smartphone and Pocket PC edition devices? What about WM5.0? What about CF2.0?

I would like a solution that gives me and my customers the following flexibility. Can you comment whether the Infralution Licensing System supports these functions (or to what extent?):

Give away time-limited copies of the program with registration key that expires on a certain date. This may be one key for a group of people, or one key per person. I've not decided yet.

Give away time-limited and feature-limited copies that expire on a certain number of days after installation, that is robust against installing a second time. When the user inputs a valid registration key, the time limits and feature limits are removed.

If for some reason the licensing or other parts of the program do not work, my customer should be able to reinstall the older version and use the old key and be able to continue functioning.

Here are some things I'm still trying to decide on. If you have suggestions, I'd love to hear them!

Display Registered Name (person or company) during splash screen (?).

Embed email address(?). Allow "online" registration, as well as email followup.

I would like to have a "transition period" where both new and old keys will work for a specific release. (?)

On a new version of the program, optionally 1) require a new key to be used or 2) require the old key to be re-entered. (?)

Infralution · Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Posts: 5027

Guest · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 10:40 pm Post subject:

Thank you so much for your response. Most of your answers I think I understand, and will research further (I assume there's a user's manual or developers guide somewhere).

Futher question: Are there any built in or recommended ways to interact with Handango or PocketGear licensing schemes? These are two Pocket PC software distributor sites.

Infralution · Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Posts: 5027

There are two ways you can use third party distributors.

1. Provide them with pregenerated lists of license keys that they provide to customers. The advantage of this is that you retain control over the key generator. The disadvantage is that you can't incorporate customer or point of sale information into the license keys.

2. If the distributor supports custom key generators and also supports .NET on their server then you can easily write a key generator using the EncryptedLicenseProvider.GenerateKey method. This allows you to incorporate customer or point of sale information.
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Guest · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 3:47 pm Post subject:

Thank you for your continued responses. I am ready to review documentation for the Licensing System, but have been unable to find documentation that does not involve installation using an MSI file on my computer. Do you have either PDF or zip files available that will inform me about the product? I am very hesitant to execute an MSI file to install anything potentially "temporary" on my development computer.

Additionally, as far as I can tell from the features and discussion, this system works by using a public key/private key where the private key is kept by the developer (and more specifically in the EncryptedLicenseProvider.GenerateKey method) and the public key is distributed within the program. Do I have the gist of it?

Infralution · Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Posts: 5027

If you really don't want to install the msi then we could email you the raw html help files. These don't include the contents, index or search facilities you get with the normal installed help documentation (which integrates with Visual Studio help) so they are hard to navigate - but they would give you more information. Email us at support@infralution.com if you would like this.
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