How do I use a subscription key to make updates available for 1 yr from install date

[kkolo]

I have a product that my company wants to create a subscription for.

What they want to have happen is ...

One Year from the Date they install... No more updates can be implemented.

Can you show me how to do this with a code sample?

Thanks, Kathy

[Chris]

You could get the Install program to write the date to a registry Key.
And then the Update program can compare this registry date with today's date and if the difference is more than a year, stop the update.

This would be a very simple system and if you have technical users they could bypass it. But for my users, this would be OK :-)

[linder]

Well, the customer licenses your software and you give free updates and upgrades for, say, one year (or 30 days or 180 days or whatever). After that period, the customer has to pay again to get updates (subscription based update model). A date written to the registry can't handle this scenario <g>

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Friedrich