Thread: MSDN library question

Is it legal to use one of the example codes given on the site in a program you are gonna place on a large number of computers?

also the program will not be used for profit.

ok cool , I'm gonna keep checkin back here though.. if anyone wants to know where I got it to see if I can use it here's the link

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ry_subkeys.asp

Is it legal to use one of the example codes given on the site in a program you are gonna place on a large number of computers?

Well ,you're probably infringing on some type of copyright infringement. Every source file I've looked at from msdn had a copyright on the top. But because Microsoft is sharing this code as library documentation, you're safe to use to generate ideas and to apply the library properly. Just look up the methods the sample uses and you should have a pretty good start to writing your own code and it's likely to be better than the sample code. Sometimes, however, you might write code using the library that you won't release. You're safe, then, I think to copy and paste.