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Ayrton Phoenix da silva - 25 Nov 2004 03:56 GMT

Dear all,

I am creating a delopment project to create the installer .msi. In VS.NET
2003, there have a UI for user to input the serial number in predifined
format with check sum. In my project, I also added my custom action to do
somthing. Such as read the serial number and write it to database or
registry...

My question is... how could I got the serial number in my DLL? through
CustomActionData or other way?

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Nak - 25 Nov 2004 20:08 GMT

Hi there,

> I am creating a delopment project to create the installer .msi. In VS.NET
> 2003, there have a UI for user to input the serial number in predifined
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> My question is... how could I got the serial number in my DLL? through
> CustomActionData or other way?

As a matter of interest, are you using this as for software protection?
If you are you might want to be aware that there are tools available for
unpacking installers, and that would allow people to grab the files out
without needing the serial number. Just thought I'd mention this...

Nick.

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Ayrton Phoenix da silva - 26 Nov 2004 04:43 GMT

Thank for your reply, Nak.

As you know, not only there are tools for unpacking installer, but also the
serial number checksum machanism is really simple, very easy to bypass. So I
am not going to protect my software, just for a record for software support
issue.

Actually, I am interested in the serial number that how can I got this in my
Custom Action! Then I can write it into registry or a file. :-D

Ayrton Phoenix

> Hi there,
>
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> Nick.

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Nak - 26 Nov 2004 10:45 GMT

Hi Ayrton,

> As you know, not only there are tools for unpacking installer, but also
> the serial number checksum machanism is really simple, very easy to
> bypass. So I am not going to protect my software, just for a record for
> software support issue.

Okay, just thought I'd check because quite a few people do actually take
that route, and find out later down the line that their software has been
"re-packed", so to speak.

> Actually, I am interested in the serial number that how can I got this in
> my Custom Action! Then I can write it into registry or a file. :-D

My appologiess but I can't answer this one for you, I haven't actually
used custom actions in a .NET setup package yet. Maybe someone else can
help you with that. Sorry :-(

Nick.

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Phil Wilson - 29 Nov 2004 16:01 GMT

The raw serial number is in the PIDKEY property (that's case-sensitive).

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> Dear all,
>
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> My question is... how could I got the serial number in my DLL? through
> CustomActionData or other way?

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