Robb4248

Hey all, I'm new to these forums. I am an owner of a medium business and have a volume licensing contract with microsoft. I'm getting annoyed with having to keep track of all of the peices of paper with the keys on it. I'm looking to create a program where I can enter all of my serials into a single program that will cycle through them so I can keep them on my flash drive for easy access, instead of risk loosing all of my serial numbers on my papers. THIS IS IN NO WAY a keygen of any sort, it is just a program for my business PCs. Can anyone help me with a toturial for going about this?

OpenLoop

So you want a serials Database? If the number of serials is relatively small, just type it in a text file. A database would be an overkill in that case.
Or you can create an MS Access Database with forms, real easy to work with yet enough for the functionality you're asking.

Booooze

Look at it this way. Your not going to hard code them into the program are you? Because that would simply not be logical if you are going to add and remove one at some point in time. Therefore you are going to have to save them to some data file, and load them intoa program. If it's a small number, you might as well use a textfile, but thenw hat would be the point of loading them into a program just to view it. The question to ask is what else do you need to store besides serial keys?

Robb4248

its about 125 volume serials, and I would like to integrate them into a small program. I would not be removing them out of the program. I mainly want it to be in this form for the looks.

King

Couldn't you just use a spread sheet, or am I missing something? I would write a program for this, but only because I am a nerd and looking for something to code lol.

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Robb4248

lol... do you have AIM, maybe we can discuss this in a little more content

Ooble

I would suggest encrypting the serials in some way so that you need a password to read them.

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zorin

you could do this in visual basic in about 30 minuites. Just create a combo box with the name of that program and then do another combo box next to that with the serials. If you don't want to so all that, you could just enter them manually into a notepad with all the details. And like Ooble said make sure to encrypt them, you can do this with PGP or just put it into a .RAR file archive file and password protect it.

Ooble

Please, do it in Visual Basic .NET or C#, not Visual Basic. You'll get it done just as quickly, and they're not crappy.

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piercy

as said above MS access! there does not seem to much point creating a program (unless you want something to do) for it when it can done be much easier in MS access and can still look good.

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