Infralution Support

[Gefflix]

Just bought ILS and it was very easy to implement the custom generator for my needs and custom app code into my product. Btw, I use the EncryptedLicense keys for my App with some custom product info in it.

Now I am struggling with the ShareIt integration and have a couple of questions:
1. I read, that I need a license on the machine where I call the GenerateKey method. The KeyGen I plan to upload to ShareIt will not have a license. As far as I remember is the license "locked" to the Computer ID as well. What can I do to call this method in unknown environments?
2. The GenerateKey method needs me to pass the serial no parameter, which - as I understand - should be incremented. I don't know anything about the ShareIt environment but how should I implement that. I'm not sure if it's save to write a file or write to the registry on their server. What do you suggest?
3. I tried the approach to include the source files (mainly to circumvent the need for the .lic file - as someone in this forum already was told) to the keygen project. I ended up having a lot of references (even System.Windows.Forms) because of some dependencies of the Utilities and the licensing dialog. Any chance to get some documentation, what classes, methods are needed and how exactly to disable the check for the license?
4. In general, it would be nice to post a simple code snippet on how to generate a license key for a custom app with the minimum requirements and dependencies to deploy such code to an environment like the one of ShareIt. If you look at the ShareIt Keygen SDK, there's only one method (GenerateKey) which is relevant to create the license key. Providing a sample code for this method would be the lifesaver !

Thanks in advance for your help...
cheers
Stefan

[Infralution]

Including the source code classes in your key generator application is the way to bypass requirement for an ILS license. You don't have to do anything special because the code that checks the ILS license is in a condition compile block which is turned on in the Infralution.Licensing project by a specific compilation constant being defined. Since your project won't define this constant the licensing check code will not be compiled.

The classes you need to include are the same as you need to include in a normal application that uses ILS. The requirements for this are documented in the Redistributables and Source Code section of the ILS help.

Have a look at the source code for the License Key Generator app for an example of how to generate license keys. In particular note that the LicenseParameters you use to generate license keys must include the ProductPasswordand other private parameters. To get these you need to export the license parameters to a text file as the Validation Parameters you include in your application code don't include the private parameters required to generate keys.

Below is a code snippet to generate a key given product info and serial no. Your key generator will need to keep track of serial numbers and increment them.

[Gefflix]

Thanks for your support, I will try to implement it the way you just explained.

[Infralution]

[Gefflix]

Thanks, I will ask them as well.

One last thing: Since it seems important to increment the serial number, how should I handle manual key creation. I mean, occasionally I need to create keys myself for special purposes and it's still not clear to me what purpose the serial number has.

Would it be advisable to increment the serial number by 2 each time I sell a key? So that automatic keys are all even numbers and manually created keys are all odd numbers?

cheers

[Infralution]

Normally you would start your automated serial nos from a different serial no (eg 10000) to allow space for you manually generated serial nos.
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[Gefflix]

Great support, great product, thanks again.

cheers
Stefan