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[2cool4cereal2]

This is an expansion for an already existing post. You may find the original post here viewtopic.php?f=38&t=129, and you'll need to follow it before my information is of any use.

****ALL CODING DONE BY ME IS IN VB 2010!****
Here are a couple of things I added to the manager to make it even more effective.


I actually added a custom status button, a refresh button, and a 'page reader' box.

Add two buttons to the form and name the first 'Update' this will be for your custom status, and name the other 'Refresh', this will be used to double check the status of the serial.

For the update button have this code:

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Private Sub Button6_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button6.Click
        My.Computer.FileSystem.WriteAllText(Application.StartupPath + "\" + ComboBox2.Text + ".act", TextBox11.Text, True)
        My.Computer.Network.UploadFile(Application.StartupPath + "\" + ComboBox2.Text + ".act", "ftp://YOURSITE.com/" + ComboBox2.Text + ".act", "USERNAME", "PASSWORD", True, 10, FileIO.UICancelOption.DoNothing)
        If My.Computer.FileSystem.FileExists(Application.StartupPath + "\" + ComboBox2.Text + ".act") Then
            My.Computer.FileSystem.DeleteFile(Application.StartupPath + "\" + ComboBox2.Text + ".act", FileIO.UIOption.OnlyErrorDialogs, FileIO.RecycleOption.DeletePermanently)
            My.Settings.update = TextBox11.Text
            My.Settings.Save()
            My.Settings.Reload()

        End If
    End Sub

Next, add a textbox to your form. If it isn't already, name it 'Textbox11', do not add any coding to it.

For the 'Refresh' button, add this code:

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Dim currentdatetime As Date = Now
        Try
            TextBox11.Clear()
            If My.Computer.FileSystem.FileExists(Application.StartupPath & "\" + ComboBox2.Text + ".usr") Then
                Using sr As New IO.StreamReader(Application.StartupPath & "\" + ComboBox2.Text + ".usr")
                    TextBox5.Text = sr.ReadToEnd
                    TextBox4.Text = TextBox5.Text.Split("|"c)(0)
                    TextBox6.Text = TextBox5.Text.Split("|"c)(1)
                    TextBox7.Text = TextBox5.Text.Split("|"c)(2)
                    TextBox8.Text = TextBox5.Text.Split("|"c)(3)
                    TextBox9.Text = TextBox5.Text.Split("|"c)(4)
                    TextBox10.Text = TextBox5.Text.Split("|"c)(5)
                End Using
            End If
            Dim url As String = "http://YOURSITE.com/" + ComboBox2.Text + ".act"
            Dim pageRequest As HttpWebRequest = CType(WebRequest.Create(url), HttpWebRequest)
            Dim pageResponse As WebResponse = pageRequest.GetResponse()
            Dim page As String = ""
            Using r As New StreamReader(pageResponse.GetResponseStream())
                page = r.ReadToEnd()
            End Using
            RichTextBox1.Text = page
            If page = "****KEY-USED********KEY-USED****" Then
                Label1.ForeColor = Color.Green
                Label1.Text = "Activated"
            ElseIf page = "***KEY-DESTROYED***" Then
                Label1.ForeColor = Color.OrangeRed
                Label1.Text = "Destroyed"
            ElseIf page = "****DE-ACTIVATED****" Then
                Label1.ForeColor = Color.OrangeRed
                Label1.Text = "De-Activated"
            ElseIf page = My.Settings.update Then
                Label1.ForeColor = Color.Blue
                Label1.Text = "Custom Status Set"
            Else
                Label1.ForeColor = Color.Red
                Label1.Text = "Custom Set, or Not Yet Activated."
                If (currentdatetime > TextBox4.Text) Then
                    Button3.Enabled = True
                End If
            End If
            Button4.Enabled = True
        Catch ex As Exception
            MsgBox(ex.Message)
        End Try
    End Sub

For this code to work properly, you will have to add a setting to your project called 'update' the code is not very well thought out, and probably will not work for all situations, but...

Finally, for the page reader textbox...

Add one Richtextbox to your form and leave it empty, if you wish, you could set it to readonly since there is no use editing it. The refresh button will get the page info and put it into the textbox. If you wan this to happen on load add this code to the form load events:

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Dim url As String = "http://YOURSITE.com/" + ComboBox2.Text + ".act"
            Dim pageRequest As HttpWebRequest = CType(WebRequest.Create(url), HttpWebRequest)
            Dim pageResponse As WebResponse = pageRequest.GetResponse()
            Dim page As String = ""
            Using r As New StreamReader(pageResponse.GetResponseStream())
                page = r.ReadToEnd()
            End Using
            RichTextBox1.Text = page

If there are errors in the code I posted, just reply and I'll try to fix 'em. Thanks for reading this! cooll;

[CodenStuff]

A mod for one of my tutorials

Great to see you taking existing tutorials and adding your own stuff to improve it. Excellent 2cool4cereal2 keep it up cooll;

[2cool4cereal2]

A mod for one of my tutorials

Great to see you taking existing tutorials and adding your own stuff to improve it. Excellent 2cool4cereal2 keep it up cooll;

Ha, thank you! I was trying to help out and I thought that this was a kind of useful and easy thing to do. I personally do really use it in my key manager. Thanks for the comment. cooll;
I'll try to keep suggestions coming. ;)

Sincerely,
-2cool4cereal2