[Tut]Generate Your Own HardwareID

Generating your own Hardware ID/Fingerprint for use with your software.

Note:As always, Please open Visual Basic.net and follow along. You won't learn anything by Copy and pasting the code :hidesmile:

Note:I already know what the "New to VB" or """"Pro Vb"""" Users are going to say... This is not a Microsoft Generated HardwareID , Answer to that is "I KNOW!" , ©Microsoft has a whole article about how they use a combination of Harddrive Serial and other serials (because they are different to the hardrive/processor/board..etc)A good read for this type of "application security", However..Every company has it's own way of generating a HardwareID/FingerPrint, My tutorial is how to get the serial (which is different for each board and etc, and use it as a UnigueID, You can (if you like) create a complex algorithm that uses this data to further this concept....(which is similiar to the concept used by commercial dll's like AZsdk [or whatever it is called]

• Create a New Windows Form Application

What you need on a form is

• A Texbox (setMutiline to true)
• 3 Buttons

1. Set Button1 Text as "&TextBox" ' This button will display a list of "ID" in the Texbox
2. Set Button2 text as "&MsgBox" ' This will display them in a MessageBox
3. Set Button3 text as "E&xit" ' This will exit your application

Note: I added two methods to demonstrate this is very flexable

You should have something that looks like this.



Code Part

Here is the code you will need for this to work


Button Click Event for "Textbox"



(start typing leechers )

Same code for the msgbox button, Only change

This part of the code

to

and that is pretty much the extent of it

here is the end results





You can use the serials as a UnigueID or Create a Simple(or complex) algorithm to create a new ID either way, hope this helps

thanks this could be useful

if i try to make a "algorithm" how can i edit the serials after program is done??

well u can change them in the registry to fool the computer
/thanked

Again, good job!

how did u get the round and kool looking buttons

Sorry Double post

Hey can you add me on msn, I tried to get this to work earlier but I got a null response.

My msn is Chambers.ry@gmail.com . Im trying it again, Oh and a Pm will work too, it's just that msn is faster.

so i guess this would be useful if you sold your software and did not want them to distribute it.

hehehe me too!