Manco .NET Licensing System 4.0.1.0

Manco .NET Licensing System 4.0.1.0 is powerful licensing and copy protection tools for .NET Windows Forms, WPF, and ASP.NET applications, controls and components. Protection library is available for .NET Framework 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 and .NET Compact Framework 2.0, 3.5. It uses very flexible licensing schema with following main features: Strong license file and unlock key encryption. Flexible license file content allows creation lots of different licensing schemas. 34 predefined rules and unlimited number of custom values provide you with flexibility in selection of licensing schema.

Custom values allows you storing any additional information in the license file, so you can lock/unlock some features of your product, or make some additional tests to validate license. Manco .NET Licensing System allows creation of the Time/Usage limited evaluation version of your product that is limited by running time (you can set expiration date or number of days before license expiration), number of runs and some features of the product. The system uses strong RSA encryption to sign license files. You can activate your .NET product using license file or strong encrypted Unlock Key. Additional user data can be included to the Unlock Key. Manco.Licensing protection library then extract this data and allows use it in the code for additional validations. Using this feature you can, for example, differentiate editions of your product (for example: base and professional). Manco .NET Licensing System allows you encryption of the application data, source code and binaries with following using of the encrypted data and code in your application. Manco.Licensing protection library allows you dynamically decrypt, compile, load and use encrypted code in runtime. Source code integration allows including of the protection library right in code of your application. License Manager is the full functional application for complete license and customer management.

Manco .NET Licensing System is the powerful licensing and copy protection software for .NET Windows Forms, WPF, WCF, WWF and ASP.NET applications, controls and components. It consists of 4 major parts:

• Protection library performs all operations on validating license rules, like test license expiry or check Unlock Key validity. Protection library is available for .NET Framework 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 and .NET Compact Framework 2.0 and 3.5.
• License Manager is the full functional application for complete license and customer management. It provides functionality on integrating software protection to your product and allows managing the Activation Web Service.
• Activation Web Service is the web service that allows online product activation. This product can generate Activation Keys that binds software licenses to the particular PC. It also can communicate with e-Commerce services (like RegNow or ShareIt!) in order to create necessary software licensing information like Unlock Keys and/or license files.
• Floating License Web Service is the web service that allows centralized license distribution and concurrent using of licenses. It can be installed either into your client’s network or on your side.
  

Major Features:

1. Strong license file and unlock key encryption.
2. Flexible license file content allows creation lots of different licensing schemas.
3. 45 predefined rules and unlimited number of custom values provide you with flexibility in selection of licensing schema.
4. Custom values allows you storing any additional information in the license file, so you can lock/unlock some features of your product, or make some additional tests to validate license.
5. Manco .NET Licensing System allows creation of the Time/Usage limited evaluation version of your product that is limited by running time (you can set expiration date or number of days before license expiration), number of runs and some features of the product.
6. The system uses strong RSA encryption to sign license files.
7. You can activate your .NET product using license file or strong encrypted Unlock Key. Additional user data can be included to the Unlock Key. Manco.Licensing protection library then extract this data and allows using it in the code for additional validations. Using this feature you can, for example, differentiate editions of your product (for example: base and professional).
8. Manco .NET Licensing System allows you to encrypt the application data, source code and binaries with following using of the encrypted data and code in your application. Manco.Licensing protection library allows you dynamically decrypt, compile, load and use encrypted code in runtime.
9. Source code integration allows including of the protection library right in code of your application.
10. Component/Control licensing. Manco.Licensing System provides a complete solution for component and control developers.
11. License and Activation e-Mail. Activation Web Service automatically sends e-Mail with licensing information when creates it in automatic mode. It also sends e-Mail with activation code to the customer in case the product is activated successfully. Manco License Manager allows you to send e-Mails with licenses and Unlock Keys to the customers in one click. Manco Licensing System can be configured so every version of every product will have own confirmation and/or activation letter or some products can share the same one.
12. Notification e-Mail. The License Manager allows you sending e-Mail to the group of customers from the “Customers” page. Not available from the evaluation version.
13. Embedded license file. License file currently can be used as embedded resource in the application. It can be useful for the applications that uses “Unlock Key” licensing schema. In this case you don’t need to distribute any external files with your application.
14. Import information about purchases from the auto-response forms. If you sale your products by the internet store or e-Commerce server (like RegNow, ShareIt! etc.) then you get order confirmation letters from them. You can copy and paste information about the purchase on the field by field base, but it’s more comfortable and easy just to copy-paste a whole letter to the form and allow License Manager to import it to the system.

Enhancements:

• The Floating License Web Service (FLWS) is the web service that allows centralized license distribution and concurrent using of licenses. It can be installed into the client network or somewhere in the Internet.
• Added new licensing rules which control behavior of the Floating License Web Service.
• New RequestFloatingLicense method has been added to the License class. It requests license from the Floating License Web Service.
• New ClearFLWSRuns method has been added to the License class. It clears number of runs counted by FLWS for particular client's IP address.
• New RegisterFloatingLicense method has been added to the License class. It register floating license on FLWS.
• New RemoveFloatingLicense method has been added to the License class. It removes floating license from FLWS.
• New ActivateFloatingLicense method has been added to the License class. It activates floating license against FLWS hardware.
• New EnumerateCustomValues method has been added to the License class. This method enumerates all custom values using condition given as XPath expression on custom value name and/or value.
• New RemoveCustomValue method has been added to the License class. It removes custom value from license.
• It is possible now to create own user control to make editing of the complex User Data in License Manager more comfortable.
• Added new "Turn Off Push Forward" licensing rule. It indicates that "Push Forward" technology shouldn't be used with this license type. This rule forces the protection library to bypass validation of the date when protected assembly has been used.
• Now it is possible to reload license file without restarting of the protected application. New LoadFromStream method has been added to the License class. It allows reload licensing information from the given stream without recreation of the license object.
• ILicenseKeyProvider extended with DoLoadLicense property which indicates whether license should be loaded from the default location during creation of the license object.
• ExpiryDate property has been changed to return nullable DateTime.
• SubscriptionDate property changed to return nullable DateTime.
• Now it is possible to specify what standard control should be used to edit User Data in License Manager. It can be done by setting special type of the default value for UserData.
• New functionality which simplifies automatic online license validation has been added. License object can be configured to validate license online in a specified time period (every 7 days, for example). In case when validation is unsuccessful it switch license to evaluation state or throw exception.
• License Manager can utilize HTTPS to communicate with AWS.
• New SwitchToEvaluation method has been added to the License class. It allows convert activated license to the evaluation state with specified expiration rule.

Requirements:

•  Protection library can be used to protect .NET products created using .NET Framework versions 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 and .NET Compact Framework 2.0 and 3.5.
• License Manager requires .NET Framework 3.5 installed into PC where it will be used.
• Activation Web Service requires .NET Framework 3.5 installed into server where it will be used. The AWS also require the “Full Trust” environment to operate.
• Floating License Web Service requires .NET Framework 3.5 installed into server where it will be used. The FLWS also require the “Full Trust” environment to operate.