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When I received my Product License
Code by email it was split over two lines - what does
this mean?
The product license code you have received is valid,
but can sometimes be wrapped onto a second line when
displayed in your email program. You must treat both
lines of the key as a single block. If you accidentally
only entered part of the code into PrintAdapters during
the installation process you can manually enter it again
by going to the Start Menu > PrintAdapters for .NET
> Register PrintAdapters. Then we recommend you cut
and paste the first line from the email into the textbox
then cut and paste the final part of the key from th
e second line on the end - make sure there is no space
between them. (See also item 1 below
if you are using Outlook XP - it may be corrupting the
text in your email).
I've entered my license code but
I still get a licensing exception when I run my program
If after installing the full version of PrintAdapters
and entering your Product License Code (see registration
faq) you still get a licensing exception when you
run your application it is most likely due to one of
the following:
1) You may be reading your email using Outlook XP. There
is a bug in Outlook XP (MSKB:Q287816)
which causes the Product License Code line to become
corrupted. To resolve this click on 'Format-Unwrap Text'
on the menu bar, or click on the link at the top of
the email that says 'Extra line breaks in this message
were removed. To restore, click here', and try entering
the License Code again.
2) There is a bug in Visual Studio .NET 2002 causing
this kind of problem with projects or solutions that
have spaces in their names. Make sure your solution
and project names don't contain any spaces.
3) Visual Studio .NET sometimes caches invalid licensing
information (ie it may still be using the Trial version
license). To resolve this close all the windows in Visual
Studio .NET and do a rebuild all of your project.
4) If none of the above succeed you can try deleting
the .licenses file associated with your project. This
can be found in the obj\Debug or obj\Release folder
underneath your project folder. Alternatively you can
just delete the obj folder altogether as it will
be regenerated when you do a rebuild.
Advanced: It is also possible to get this kind
of licensing error if you build Forms referencing PrintAdapters
into a class library (.dll) project. In this
case it is the calling application (the .exe) that must
be able to supply the PrintAdapters license, and unless
the exe itself has a reference to PrintAdapters the
compiler won't bind the PrintAdapters license into the
exe. The simplest solution here is to add a PrintAdapters
component to one of the Forms in your main application,
which will cause the correct entry to be added to the
licenses.licx file. Alternatively you can add a line
containing 'TMGDevelopment.PrintAdapters.PrintListView,
PrintAdapters' (without the quotes) to your project's
licenses.licx file manually.
When
I upgraded to PrintAdapters v2 I got an error when I
tried to rebuild my project similar to the following:
"Reference required to assembly 'PrintChaining'
containing the implemented interface 'TMGDevelopment.Printing.IChainedDocument'.
Add one to your project."
PrintAdapters from version 2.0 onwards has a dependency
on the extra shared assembly PrintChaining.dll. To recompile
your project you must add a reference to PrintChaining
to your project: right click on 'References' in the
Solution Explorer>select 'Add Reference'>on the
.NET tab scroll down and select PrintChaining. You will
also need to deploy PrintChaining.dll with your application
that uses PrintAdapters.
I get a Licensing
Exception when I run a managed Visual C++ application
using PrintAdapters
Unfortunately C++ in Visual Studio 2003 doesn't provide
nearly as much support for the .NET component licensing
process as C# or VB.NET, with regard to creating the
licenses file for a licensed control and binding it
into the executable - you have to do most of it yourself.
Here are the steps you must follow:
1. Open a Visual Studio 2003 command prompt
2. Change directory to your project folder (where the
licenses.licx file is)
3. Run the following command to generate the .licenses
file
lc /target:<your exe filename.exe>
/complist:licenses.licx /i:PrintAdapters.dll
4. This generates a file called <your exe filename.exe>.licenses
in the project folder
5. In Visual Studio, right click on the project in the
Solution Explorer and select Properties>Linker>Input>Embed
Managed Resource File and enter the filename of the
.licenses file
6. When you rebuild the solution the .licenses file
will be embedded in the .exe manifest and the component
should be able to read it at runtime
Note: you only need to generate
this once for a given project, but it is specific to
the project (the licenses file contains a reference
to <your exe filename.exe> and won't work with
any other project.
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