Application Deployment

[CribbsStyle]

Can you deploy your access 2007 application as a 30 day demo with
other limitations, so the customer has to purchase a serial # after 30
days?

 

[Pat Hartman]

You will need to write your own code to accomplish this. There is nothing
built in that will help you. I've done similar things with older versions
where I limited the number of records allowed in a key table rather than
limiting by date. If you search, you'll probably come up with several
suggestions and possibly even some code.

 

[Tony Toews [MVP]]

Can you deploy your access 2007 application as a 30 day demo with
other limitations, so the customer has to purchase a serial # after 30
days?

Tools available from sites such as sysinternals.com can crack any
method you use to store a future date anywhere on a system such as in
the registry or a file. Unless it's encrypted. But even then if you
delete the date from wherever it's stored your app may think it's just
installed.

Thus I prefer to limit the number of records in one key table such as
5 units or 50 volunteers but allow unlimited access for everything
else. Once I get paid then I email them an encrypted file containing
the number of records they are licensed for as well as their company
name which goes on the bottom of every page of every report.

For more of my thoughts on this topic see the "Copy protection or how
to safely distribute a demo Microsoft Access Application" page at
http://www.granite.ab.ca/access/demo.htm

Tony
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[CribbsStyle]

Tony this sounds perfect, I would love to limit to say 50 records in
my cards table. I read the page at the link u posted, but Im still
very confused by the whole thing. Can you help me out here?

 

[Tony Toews [MVP]]

Tony this sounds perfect, I would love to limit to say 50 records in
my cards table. I read the page at the link u posted, but Im still
very confused by the whole thing. Can you help me out here?

Only if you have a specific question. Also you will need to do a lot
of work with VBA code.

Tony
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Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP
Please respond only in the newsgroups so that others can
read the entire thread of messages.
Microsoft Access Links, Hints, Tips & Accounting Systems at
http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm
Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/