Let's suppose you deploy a network-attached appliances (small form factor PCs) in the field. You want to allow these to call home after being powered on, then be identified and activated by end users. Our current plan involves the user entering the MAC address into an activation page on our web site. Later our software (running on the b...
In my application I have a window which I popup with small messages on it (think similar to tooltip). This window uses the layered attributes to draw alpha backgrounds etc. If I have several of these windows open at once, and I click one with my mouse, when they disappear they cause my application to lose focus (it switches focus to the...
We're looking to replace our current, in-house developed trial-version activation system for our .NET application with something off the shelf. To clarify the question I'm asking, let me point out some ground we've already covered (and related questions already asked here), and some other requirements we have: We're convinced that we ...
We have a simple registration form for our website users where we only require an e-mail address and a password (both repeated twice to make sure they are correct). We require that the user confirm their e-mail accounts by clicking a link in an e-mail. We see that a lot of users don't bother following the link in the e-mail (over 18% ne...
I have an existing app that has a free trail, and the same code/download can also be "upgraded" to a full-featured application by giving it a "license key". This is done with some magic and the semi-hacky method of getting some name for a machine. So, basically I am selling licenses per computer. The current payment and activation p...
I'm in charge of an app that uses the internet to transfer data between sites, and some customers are being awkward about paying, so we need a mechanism that will allow us to cut off the service of non-payers. I'd like to protect against the admin people using firewalls to block off our checks, but conversely I'd like to give some allowa...
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Hi all, BRIEF: I am interested in finding out if there has been or ever will be a system for processing and managing software activation in a flash app. DESCRIPTION: My company develops alot in flash and flex and can already manage user access for online applications. but if I were to distribute a flash *.exe or an AIR app; are there...
I've written an application and I'd like to add a registration key/serial number to it (I'm big on minimum inconvinience - ala #4 at this Eric Sink article). My question is about where to store the "activation" once the application has been registered. As I understand it, I have a trade-off between storing the key in a public place, wher...
I have a java programs that outputs a warning for missing javax.activation.DataHandler and javax.mail.internet.MimeMultipart I'm not sure what these are used for, nor can I recall adding any specific code that may require these classes. I realize the warning can be resolved by adding the activation.jar and mailapi.jar, but I'm interest...
What if my software will use a unique ID (obtained from license) for accessing update. By that ID I can observe amount of piracy (e.g., how many used of the software with the same ID has updated from version 1.01 to 1.02). As far as I know, Kaspersky Antivirus uses a license key to get the update of the database. On the other hand I h...
I am just about done writing a killer application for the mac, however I would like to charge money for this one, as there isn't a lot of applications out there like this one. So I was thinking of using some sort of activation or license key. I've looked around but details on how to do it is relatively scarce. How can I do this in a wa...
Hello. I'm trying to implement code-completion popup window in my project. The window is derived from Form. It contains two controls: custom list derived from UserControl (it shows completion possibilities with icons) and a VScrollBar. When the popup appears, it doesn't steal focus from the editor (form's ShowWithoutActivation is overri...
Some applications require me to install/activate a license before I can develop with them in Visual Studio, but then when I compile my application, no license is required by the end-user. What's the easiest way to accomplish this? How can I prevent a developer from using whatever method the final DLL uses when it runs on a client machine...
Scenario: Given Parent POM which defines a profile and a child (as module) Child project(s) that will be using the profile by referring to the parent POM. The intent is to skip profile execution in the parent and execute it in the child only Profile has activation section <activation><property><name>foo</name></property><activation...
This may be a dumb question but it seems like activateIgnoringOtherApps: may be the only way to activate an app using Cocoa. I have a java app that loads up a Cocoa app and I want the Cocoa app to be activated when this happens. The problem is I do not want to have to launch an intermediate app (some sort of controller) and use this ap...
Is it possible to pass arguments to ClickOnce application from other browsers besides Internet Explorer? I am not even able to launch online-only application from any other browser. I am able to start offline ClickOnce applications (the .application file is downloaded and I am able to start it locally), but I am getting a file not found...
I have a completed Cocoa application and would like to sell it. I have found many services that will sell your application, but not many that will also handle activation. Are there any services that will integrate activation into the installation file or are there any services that are easy to integrate (hopefully will take at max an hou...
I am using php and mysql. And my site is in flash (full flash site) I have a website which let users to sign up. The signup process including sending "activation email", click link to activate account. The first two weeks was fine. Out of around 2000 users, 1800 users are activated. After that, the activated users drop drastically, to ...
The typical product activation scheme is as follows A unique serial no. is assigned to user A unique hardware id is generated for the user's machine. On giving this info to the vendor, the vendor issues an activation code. I would like to know how the activation code is generated and what are its contents. Also what is the general s...