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i am writing a commercial WPF application that needs to be copy-protected. since this is WPF, I am considering porting it to a Silverlight OOB application, if possible. one thing that i am not sure about is whether OOB application is easily “hackable” and can be manually copied to another machine without going to the web URL to download it from. are there any copy protection solutions for OOB applications?
please help
thanks
konstantin
I have not tried copying one, but I think if you have the .XAP file you would be able to run it on another computer (unless you built protection into the .XAP file)
If you go to this file location:
c:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Silverlight\OutOfBrowser
You can see all the OOB apps installed. The shortcut on your menu is just using SLlauncher to open the .XAP file… hence I suspect it could be copied and installed (using SLlauncher) again.
I think you would need to built protection into your app…