How to make single installation setup

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Dear experts,
I have done a c# windows application. I already finished that and its ready to be lunched in market. But now the need is to make that exe to a single installation setup file. That means once our exe runs on a machine that should not install on another machine. Means we should restrict our software with product key. How can i achieve this, pls help me.

Posted 7-Apr-15 0:43am

Sunil Kumar Pandab

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jk0391 7-Apr-15 9:38am

Sorry but this is not something you ask here... Try google searching for tutorials, or even YouTube videos.

As for the product key, that is something you would implement in the back-end of the application (programming)

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Dave Kreskowiak · Answer 1 · 2015-04-07T05:12:00

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There really is no way of copy protecting your app. An installation cannot be executed "only once" per machine. Your application has to be written to support a product key registration in order to have any real chance of working. Even then it is still possible to defeat it.

Posted 7-Apr-15 5:12am

Dave Kreskowiak