License v18

v18.4.2

24-09-2024

General

  • Refactored license validation and notification functions to enable compatibility with Inventor 2025, PowerShell 7 and other .NET Core-based applications

  • Assemblies are no longer installed in the GAC (e.g. publisher policy files for coolOrange.Licensing and coolOrange.Utils.UI, and third-party assemblies like Microsoft.Toolkit.Uwp.Notifications, System.ValueTuple).
    Starting now, it is no longer the latest Licensing version that is used by all installed products, but the one bundled and merged with each product.

v18.4.1

17-04-2024

Features

  • A single customer key can be used to easily activate all coolOrange products included in your subscription at once.

  • License Information Dialog now displays the license status directly instead of showing notifications

Fixed

  • Activation issues when the Long time format delimiter in the Windows Regional settings is not a colon (:) - for example with Danish (Greenland).
    This problem affected valid StandAlone licenses and offline activations that resulted in a “License is not valid” notification.

  • Issue in the License Information Dialog:

    • Dialog did not provide any feedback during activation when pressing “Register License”.

    • 30 days remaining were displayed if an expired or invalid license was registered even though the product could not be used.

  • Issues with license notifications:

    • Annoying license warnings, previously displayed frequently and often during product evaluations and before the annual renewal, are now only displayed once a day.

    • Under certain conditions, products showed invalid license notifications when the connection to the internet was temporarily lost.

    • After notifications in the Windows Action Center, many product icons were often displayed in the taskbar.
      They suddenly disappear when moving the mouse over them, especially noticeable on server environments like the Job Processor.

    • An incorrect license error text was displayed if an expired or invalid license was registered.

v18.3.1

30-06-2023

General

  • Removed support for the Token license model

Fixed

  • Issue that for activated products when checking the validity of the license, redundant request were sent to the license server

  • Issue where the same licensing notifications were repeatedly displayed when two or more products were running in the same process and both displayed licensing notifications

v18.2.29

11-04-2023

General

  • Upgraded to .NET Framework 4.7

  • End User License Agreement (EULA) has changed

  • Product Information Window link to EULA page has changed

Fixed

  • Issue where activation via serial number failed on environments where HTTPS requests with TLS v1.0 are blocked

v18.2.27

19-10-2021

General

  • “License Information Window” and “Product Information Window” Links to Documentation page(s) have changed

Fixed

  • Issue that Assert Failure dialogues prevented the user from starting some of the products on environments where the product or the corresponding License Information Tool have never been started before

v18.2.26

01-09-2021

General

  • Improved performance when starting activated products

v18.1.24

21-04-2021

General

  • End User License Agreement (EULA) has changed

Fixed

  • Issue that licensing notifications from the License Information Tool did not stop to reappear

v18.1.22

15-01-2021

Fixed

  • Issue that license information for renewed licenses was only updated when the license expired

v18.1.21

02-12-2020

Fixed

  • Issue that the product version was not shown in About dialog

v18.1.20

06-11-2020

General

  • Upgraded to .NET Framework 4.5

v18.1.19

23-10-2020

General

  • Copyright notices have changed

v18.1.18

07-10-2020

Fixed

  • Product Information Window issue that product name was not fully displayed when name is too long

v18.1.17

29-04-2020

General

  • License Information Window shows Expiration Date instead of remaining days

  • End User License Agreement (EULA) has changed

  • Removed Splashscreen

Fixed

  • Issue that for Trial with Functional Restrictions 30 Days remaining was shown in License Information Window

  • Issue with wrong product name and icon displayed for notifications during License Activation

v18.0.10

05-11-2019

Fixed

  • Issue that product with activated Token license was running in Grace Period after not using it for several days

v18.0.9

24-10-2019

Fixed

  • Issue that activated products were running in Trial for some applications (e.g. AutoCad)

v18.0.8

19-08-2019

Fixed

  • Issue that in following situations a notification was shown indicating that “Tokens could not be retrieved!”:

    • Tokens were charged yesterday and after 24 hours (or more) product is started again

    • Tokens were charged before midnight and product is started again after midnight

v18.0.7

27-05-2019

Fixed

  • Issue that long server applications do not stop working when license expires during usage

  • Issue that wrong notification is shown when activated via Offline Activation

v18.0.6

21-05-2019

Features

  • Added support for the stand-alone licenses

  • Command line arguments for License.exe for automated activation

Fixed

  • Issue that product does not stop working when no Tokens are available and grace period is over

  • Issue when calling Splashscreen or AboutWindow from a WPF control

  • Issue when using a product on a machine with .NET 4.5 installed

v18.0.3

03-04-2019

Features

  • Added support for the Token license model

General

  • Removed support for Floating Licensing

  • Renamed “License” shortcut for Products to “[Product Name] License Information”

  • Renamed assembly coolOrange.Utils.Ui to coolOrange.Utils.Ui.v18.0 to avoid compatibility breaks