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Everything written for .NET can be reverse-engineered easily enough, due to the nature of CIL and .NET. There are reverse-engineering programs; and authors claim that each and every well-known protection product is not a problem for them. I can understand why.

I seriously recommend you to consider working without any protection. If some your user is a regular user, you won't really loose anything, but the fair use will be easy. If the user is a pirate, you have no a chance to withstand. Or you can use some really light protection, to filter out only those who would just make a couple of copies for friends without any efforts. At the same time, protection is a serious hassle for development and testing, and it is always at least some hassle for the fair use, so it will repel some users.

You can compensate it by providing service and other incentives for registered users.

At least, think about all that.

—SA

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Posted 9 Jan '13 - 4:28

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov587K

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Marcus Kramer - 9 Jan '13 - 10:54

+5.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov - 9 Jan '13 - 11:39

Thank you, Marcus. —SA

thoahn - 10 Jan '13 - 1:39

Thanks for explaining Sergey. But i have a question more; In order to license my product ( with registry code , license key , etc. ) should i use installer which allows it, or is there anything else which you recommend ?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov - 10 Jan '13 - 2:03

I'm not familiar with installer-based approach. Of course, you can add any arbitrary files to the installation, but how can it help licensing scenario? I'll try to explain: These things are not directly related. One usual approach is that the product is installed without any key, for evaluation. It's your business to recognize the key and decide what to do depending on it: limit functionality, time of use, etc. When the key is obtained, the user gets the instruction to install the key. (It could be simply copied to the application directory.) On next start of the application, you recognize the key and then proceed with your runtime accordingly... —SA

joshrduncan2012 - 9 Jan '13 - 10:24

What do you mean "protect your product"? That is a broad term. Do you want to ssl your product, if so, digital signature certs are a recommendation.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov - 9 Jan '13 - 10:30

You are right. But... please see my answer. SSL has nothing to do with protection. They protect users from phishing, not publishers. (Well, there is also a user certificate, I did not mean it, it's rarely used.) —SA

joshrduncan2012 - 9 Jan '13 - 10:36

Thanks SA!

Abhishek Pant - 9 Jan '13 - 11:48

well ,Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov explained very well below ;If you still want you can use installshield(full version) to make your setup of your products!

thoahn - 10 Jan '13 - 1:31

So, should i use installer that helps licensing (register key , product key ,etc.) ?

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