Nothing is going be 100% safe. There are zillions of things you can get to make it time-out after a certain date. Another good idea is to limit the number of records that can be entered into the demo version.
>We have an existing VFP 7.0 application, and would like to creat a demo version of it that we can put up on our web site, and have people download and install it. We would like to put some sort of locking/licensing in place to disable the software after a certain time period. The demo schema should not be able to be circumnavigated by simply back-dating one's system.
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>Does anyone have any suggestions of how to do this? Are there third-party tools that would look after this rather than "re-inventing the wheel"?
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>Thanks
>Steven L. Crozier
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