activation

singleton pattern in Windows Activation Service

Hello I have a few WCF services that are currently being self hosted, in a very basic NT Service. I want to expand my application to add provisioning of WCF Services, and updates, as well as isolation (I want each WCF Service to be in its own AppDomain). These WCF Services contain logic that needs to be run on a regular basis, pinging...

Generating Serial Number

So I'm creating a Activation class for a VB6 project and I've run into a brain fart. I've designed how I want to generate the Serial Number for this particular product in a following way. XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX Each group of numbers would be representative of data that I can read if I'm aware of the matching document that allows me to und...

Send activation email to user

How would I do to check if a email actially exists? Cant understand how sites do to send mails with a unique link that the users clicks to validate that he is the owner of email =/ Make a 2 new columns called activationkey and activated and store some random string, send an email with the activationkey, and update the users activated =...

Best practices for email confirmation codes

Hi I'm creating a PHP website which involves users signing up, and I'm wondering about best practices for "email confirmation" codes. New users must confirm their email addresses - I do this by generating a code and sending it to the user in an email, which he can then use to activate his account. Rather than storing this key in a data...

Firewalls preventing product activation

I'm looking to implement a basic product activation scheme such that when the program is launched it will contact our server via http to complete the activation. I'm wondering if it is a big problem (especially with bigger companies or educational organizations) that firewalls will block the outgoing http request and prevent activation....

Configure mail.rb for localhost testing

hi...is it possible to configure mail.rb (in RESTFUL authentication) to test email activation locally? the default file is ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :smtp ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = { :address => "mail.example-domain.com", :port => 25, :domain => "www.example-domain.com", :authentication => :login, ...

Service Broker External Activation Runs App Multiple Times.

I am using service broker as my messaging system to schedule and run jobs. Eash job is composed of multiple tasks or steps called engines. My service broker objects are: MessageTypes: SubmitJob, JobResponse, SubmitTask, TaskResponse Contracts: JobContract, TaskContract Queues: ClientQueue, JobQueue, EngineQueue, ExternalActivatorQue...

Why can't I activate a Maven2 profile from another profile?

I have a multimodule Maven2 project which builds a web application. The application is connected to a backend server and a DB. There are several server instances deployed in our environment, and there are also multiple backend and DB instances for development, UAT, production, etc. So practically, each application configuration needs the...

activating threads C#

i have this code in C#: Thread t1 = new Thread(functionsActivations(3, 4000, 0, 4)); Thread t2 = new Thread(functionsActivations(3, 4000, 5, 9)); t1.start(); t2.Start(); Thread t3 = new Thread(functionsActivations(4, 4000, 0, 4)); Thread t4 = new Thread(functionsActivations(4, 4000, 5, 9)); It is not working. How can I tell it to call...

generating/ storing account activation code

usually on any website after you register they send you an e-mail with an account activation code, is there somewhere some information/best-practices about this technique ? like about how do you generate them, how do you store them, do you encode or not these activation codes ? ...

Is there a "standard" way to implement Software Activation for .NET?

I've been looking at software activation systems for .NET and frankly found the websites out there underwhelming. I'm wondering if there's a "standard" way to do it in .NET? If not, does anyone with experience of them have a recommendation? I understand the arguments for and against activation systems, but still need to evaluate. Than...

django-registration with paypal integration

I'm trying to figure out how to integrate django-registration with django-paypal. Being a Django n00b, I'm trying to figure out how to implement a flow like this: User signs up using django-registation with 'active' flag set to 0 After registering, send user to PayPal for a subscription When they come back from PayPal successfully, I ...

Remote objects activation doubt

If two clients do Activation.GetObject, using the Singleton approach, and the same address, are they going to get the same instance of the class? Or will each client get a different instance? ...

Why is it not possible to call RegFree COM and .NET from the VB IDE (VB6 & VBA)?

Hi I have an example project with works when called from compiled VB6 but not from the IDE or from Excel's VBE. There are 3 DLLs QA.DLL, QB.DLL, QAW.DLL. QA is written in C#.NET, QB and QAW are written in VB6. QAW is a COM wrapper of QA. In the calling code I create an Activation Context and load a manifest file. All works fine from...

PHP mail () activation

I need to activate this mail() function is there any way of doing this only on my hosting account (being on shared account)? Thanks! ...

add/get/delete/update_option() not working in activation hook (wordpress)

I'm in the process of updating a WordPress plugin that's been out for a while, and part of "future proofing" the plugin is to get rid of some shoddy naming schemes that were implemented in the beginning phases of the plugin. I figured I would simply add an activation hook which would check to see if any of those names existed, and if so...

Activate a (COM Interop based) ActiveX contol using registration free com

I have a (COM Interop based) ActiveX contol that I am trying to use with registration free com. When the control loads the control is inactive (does not responds to events, control not fully rendered etc). After much search I discovered that COM objects using reg-free-com use the miscStatus attribute to set the initial state to get corr...

Token/Activations table or Memcache?

My recent discovery of memcache has kind of created a craze and opening up everything to new possibilities. Right now, when I send out a confirmation email when someone has signed up for one of our services, I create "token" in a "tokens" table that has a set expiration (usually 3 days) for them to verify their account. I then have a d...

WCF 4: Fileless Activation Fails On XP (IIS 5) that has SSL port enabled.

I have a service being hosted in IIS on XP via fileless activation. The service starts fine when there is no SSL port enabled for IIS but when the SSL port is enabled, I get the error message: System.ServiceModel.ServiceActivationException: The service '/SkillsPrototype.Web/services/Linkage.svc' cannot be activated due to an except...

Custom Server to communicate with my software?

I am working on a major project that I need for work. I am working on a project that requires software validation. I would like this to be handled by a custom server I will write in Python, this server will be the "gateway" between the user and product activation. The software program will be purchased from other companies in volume li...