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Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback? Namespace: System. ComponentModel Assembly: System. In this article. Equals Object. Determines whether the specified object is equal to the current object. Inherited from Object. Serves as the default hash function. IsLicensed Type. Only one. This file is not added to the project - it's only generated and distributed with the application output. All ComponentOne Editions are designed to display licensing information if the product is not licensed.

Applications will not run correctly if the license is missing or invalid after the day trial has expired. We try very hard to make the licensing mechanism as unobtrusive as possible, but problems may occur for a number of reasons. Here are the most common problems and their solutions. A: ComponentOne Studio and its Editions are licensed per developer per seat. This includes anyone who uses ComponentOne Studio components and controls to create and compile projects in Microsoft's Visual Studio.

If someone wants to work with the code that a component or control has created, they need to have a license. There are no limits on the distribution of applications—unlimited, royalty-free, run-time distribution. The licensing only affects design time. A: When you purchase the license, you receive a free one-year subscription that entitles you to the latest version of the software.

The license is perpetual and does not expire; the subscription runs year to year. If you choose not to renew, you can still use the software as is; you just won't have access to the latest version.

A: Activation is used by GrapeCity to verify the authenticity of the product key used to license the software and also to ensure that keys are only used to license an approved number of machines. The activation process does not collect any customer-specific information and protects the end user's privacy completely.

A: If you have a new digit license key it must first be activated through the GrapeCity License Manager tool. Then if you'd like to use an older version of any ComponentOne product version prior to v2 , you can launch the legacy C1LicenseActivation tool and it will prompt you to install an old key that matches the new key's subscription time period.

Then you will be able to use old versions of any product licensed within your subscription. If you have a digit license key you can use just the first 17 digits of your serial number to unlock older products through C1LicenseActivation.

A: Beginning July 29th, , GrapeCity distributes serial keys that are 19 characters long. These new keys are compatible with the GrapeCity License Manager activation tool. The old ComponentOne serial keys are 28 or 17 characters and are compatible with the C1LicenseActivation tool.

The new serial keys can still be used with older versions of ComponentOne products, and vice versa, so long as you use the correct activation tool for the serial key you are trying to activate. A: Yes. As long as your serial number reflects an active subscription, you can enter it into the C1LicenseActivation tool and successfully license your controls. A: No. You can continue to use all future versions within your subscription without issue. The controls will first check for a new license, and if one is not found, they will check for a valid old license.

The serial key would still need activated on the developer's machine using C1LicenseActivation if it was purchased before July 29th, A: The usage of this serial key has been exceed the limit.

Please try to deactivate it on a different machine, which does not need it any more, and then try to activate it on this machine again. A: The serial key has been activated too frequently. A serial key can only be deactivated and reactivated up to 9 times within 24 hours.

Please try it after 24 hours. A: Click on the About button for the control you're trying to license and identify the version number. If the control is a v3 control or earlier, then you should only enter the first 17 characters of your serial number.

If it is v1 or later, you should your full serial number if your serial number is from v1 or later it will be 28 characters; otherwise it will be If you're still experiencing problems, please contact your sales representative for assistance. The GrapeCity Sales team can be reached at Your sales representative can determine if your serial number is valid and help you to get a valid serial number or further assistance if your serial number is valid. A: Run the license removal tool. Files are located here.

This removes the existing license. Once this is done, you can activate your studio by pressing the Activate button in the About Box of any ComponentOne Studio control. A: You will need to manually deactivate your controls. To do this, go into the About box of any. NET 2. Enter your new license key into the appropriate boxes and click OK.

A: The limit is three 3 machines per license. Allowed installations include any combination of a primary machine desktop , backup machine laptop , build machine, or test machine. A: You can deactivate on one machine in order to free up an activation for a different machine. A serial key can only be activated on 3 different machines and up to 9 times within 24 hours. If you cannot deactivate any of your current computers, you will need to purchase additional licenses or request an additional activation.

The rest of the answer stands on it's own. It will probably work on the development systems, where that control is licensed system-wide, but probably not on end-user systems that don't have a licensed version of that control.

Including the license. Therefore you DON'T add the licx file, instead you manually build the. Hope this helps. Groo Nowhere in that entire article is "licx" mentioned. How does this address the question? I somewhat agree with Joe White. It does explain licensing and infer what licx might do but doesn't directly address it. Denis Denis Sign up or log in Sign up using Google.

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