<div>
Points awarded.<br />
<br />
One last thing: is it easy to encrypt registry entries? &nbsp;And do you know where I can find how to do it?<br />
Thanks.
</div>


Points awarded.

One last thing: is it easy to encrypt registry entries?  And do you know where I can find how to do it?
Thanks.

<div>
The registry has a Cryptography namespace:<br />
<br />
Imports System.Security.Cryptograp<wbr />hy<br />
<br />
Never used it, but I am sure you can figure out how to encrypt, then write the data to the registry and then decrypt at runtime.
</div>


The registry has a Cryptography namespace:

Imports System.Security.Cryptography

Never used it, but I am sure you can figure out how to encrypt, then write the data to the registry and then decrypt at runtime.

<div>
<div class="content wysiwyg-content">
Guys,<br />
<br />
I am installing my WinForms app onto someone's machine for testing purposes.<br />
I don't mind if they continue to use it for evermore, but I want to prevent them or anyone else from copying the app over onto another machine.<br />
When I install the app, I use the Setup project in VS (copying the files from Debug folder to the target machine).<br />
If I simply delete the Setup files after installation, and remove them from Recycle, is this going to be enough to safeguard my app?<br />
<br />
I appreciate that there might be some smart-alecs out there who could do something to copy my app, but I am looking to prevent &quot;the average user&quot; from copying it.<br />
<br />
Thanks in advance...
</div>
</div>


Guys,

I am installing my WinForms app onto someone's machine for testing purposes.
I don't mind if they continue to use it for evermore, but I want to prevent them or anyone else from copying the app over onto another machine.
When I install the app, I use the Setup project in VS (copying the files from Debug folder to the target machine).
If I simply delete the Setup files after installation, and remove them from Recycle, is this going to be enough to safeguard my app?

I appreciate that there might be some smart-alecs out there who could do something to copy my app, but I am looking to prevent "the average user" from copying it.

Thanks in advance...

Prevent installation of my application on another machine, how to...

Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET) is an object-oriented programming language implemented on the .NET framework, but also supported on other platforms such as Mono and Silverlight. Microsoft launched VB.NET as the successor to the Visual Basic language. Though it is similar in syntax to  Visual Basic pre-2002, it is not the same technology,