Whether you have been evaluating our products and are ready to install a commercial version, or you are upgrading from one commercial version to another, you should follow the steps below to ensure a seamless experience in your projects.
- Uninstall the previous, or evaluation, product from your control panel.
- Install the new version, activating as necessary during the install.
- Open your solution in Visual Studio, and open a form designer containing the product.
- Force a re-save by changing a property, changing it back (don't use Undo) then pressing save.
Opening a form designer is important because of the way Visual Studio and the .NET framework implement licensing. It forces Visual Studio to evaluate which licensed components you are using and update the licenses.licx file in your project.
Changing a property and re-saving forces all designer code to be freshly generated. This is important because we often find ways to optimize designer-generated code between versions, and you want to ensure you are always using the latest APIs in your application.
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