Licensing a component without a user interface at design / compile time

[Neil Davidson]

We have a component without a user interface which we want to license
at design time.

If someone has a design-time license then they should be able to
compile applications using the component, but if they do not have a
design time license then they should not be able to do this.

The component does not have a user interface so its constructor is
never called at design- or compile- time. The LicenseProvider
attribute does not seem to work in this case.

Is there any way to do this?

Thanks,

Neil

 

[MSFT]

Hi Neil,

Did you component inherit from System.ComponentModel.Component? Based on my
test, its New method will be executed when we add it to a form at design
time. Therefore, we can add the license validating code here.

Luke
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[Neil Davidson]

Thanks for the reply. The component has no UI so it isn't added to the form
at design time.

I figured out what the problem was eventually though; I didn't understand
the role of the licenses.licx and didn't realize I needed to create it
manually. Once I'd done that it worked fine.

- Neil