Testing a Trialware Release of Your Product

If you have added a trialware file to your project in the Trialware view and you have built a trialware version of your product, you can test your protected product to ensure that it behaves as planned. Check all of the hyperlinks in the trialware run-time dialogs to make sure that they point to the desired locations.

If you test a Try and Buy/Product Activation product by running and activating the protected trial version, you will not be able to restart the entire Try and Buy/Product Activation experience without removing the license, as described in the procedure below.

If you test a Try and Die product by running the protected trial version, it will expire at the end of the trial; you will not be able to test your product further on the same test machine without removing the license.

Copy the files that are added to the TestTools folder at build time to the test machine that contains the license that you want to delete. For each file being wrapped, the TestTools folder contains the following files:

SCResetLicense<WrappedBaseFileName>.exe

IsSvcInstSCResetLicense<WrappedBaseFileName>.dll

For example, if a file called Calc.exe is wrapped, the files in the TestTools folder are SCResetLicenseCalc.exe and IsSvcInstSCResetLicenseCalc.dll.

On the test machine, run the SCResetLicense<WrappedBaseFileName>.exe file.

The license for your protected product is removed, and the trial state is reset. The next time you restart your protected product on the same test machine, the trial starts over, enabling you to retest it.

Do not release the files in the TestTools folder with your product or make them available to your customers. Doing so would enable end users to continually restart a trial each time that it expires. Note that the TestTools files are specific to a particular product and license and cannot be used to delete licenses for other products.