I'm really looking for a simple way of ensuring that only customers that have paid for and registered our applications, can actually use them. Something similar to the way shareware works - an expiry date - an opportunity to enter a unique license number based on the company/user name.

Rgds
Petras

>Well, you could write a registration routine that runs near the beginning of the program and once it has been completed, never runs again.
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>I think there is also an option in the Setup Wizard to run a program when the install is done...I suppose this program could be a registration program.
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>I also suppose for unique registration numbers, you could hard code that into different compiles or include a table that has a field for registration number and change that with different compiles...I suppose you could write a program that does this automatically for many compiles (increments the registration number, builds into unique directory, etc.).
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>Not sure if this is what you meant...
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>Joe
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>>Hi, we have several applications almost out of beta and will be ready to sell to our clients soon. Does anyone know of a simple and fairly foolproof way of licensing/registering VFP applications as they are installed or before they are used for the first time. The method should cater for updates to the VFP application as well.
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