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Mike Gagnon
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There is no real way to achieve this in any applications. There is nothing preventing anyone from using windows explorer and copying your data outside of your application. Here are two suggestions you might consider.
[ol][li]If your data is sitting on a server. Password protect the drive or directory your data is sitting in. And only your application "unlocks" the directory.[/li]
[li]Encrypt your data (and when the application loads, it will decrypt the data, and when it closes re-encrypt the data) that way if someone copies your encrypted data it will be unless to them.[/li][/ol]
Mike Gagnon
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There is no real way to achieve this in any applications. There is nothing preventing anyone from using windows explorer and copying your data outside of your application. Here are two suggestions you might consider.
[ol][li]If your data is sitting on a server. Password protect the drive or directory your data is sitting in. And only your application "unlocks" the directory.[/li]
[li]Encrypt your data (and when the application loads, it will decrypt the data, and when it closes re-encrypt the data) that way if someone copies your encrypted data it will be unless to them.[/li][/ol]
Mike Gagnon
If you want to get the best response to a question, please check out FAQ184-2483 first.
Mike Lewis
Programmer
Yeap,
If the table is read-only (that is, users will neve need to alter it), you can embed it in your EXE file. To do so, find the table in the project manager, right-click, and select Include.
That won't stop a determined intruder from getting at it, but it will make it much more difficult.
Mike
Mike Lewis
Edinburgh, Scotland
My Visual Foxpro web site: My Crystal Reports web site:
If the table is read-only (that is, users will neve need to alter it), you can embed it in your EXE file. To do so, find the table in the project manager, right-click, and select Include.
That won't stop a determined intruder from getting at it, but it will make it much more difficult.
Mike
Mike Lewis
Edinburgh, Scotland
My Visual Foxpro web site: My Crystal Reports web site:
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