Because you will often spend dozens or hundreds of hours designing and developing a quality Visual Basic application, it is important to use appropriate licensing and obfuscation technology to protect your hard work. Licensing is another one of those common programming tasks that didn't make it into the .NET Framework as an easy-to-use classunless you are building and distributing design-time controls. For the rest of us, it's make-it-up-as-you-go time. Fortunately, .NET has great support tools, so adding licensing support isn't too difficult. |