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User gets missing key message (wodSFTP / wodSFTP.NET / wodSFTPdll)

by ltoews, Saturday, January 03, 2009, 09:07 (5804 days ago)

I have developed a VB6 application that uses wodFtpDLX as a COM object. Once in a while, a user will get the following error message:

License key missing. You cannot use this component in design environment. (Error code is 39999)

This puzzles my poor users, because they have no idea what a design environment is. They're just trying to use a compiled executable. The license key property is set before the call to the Connect method. The DLL is included in the installer. About 20 people are using this application on a daily basis, and about once a month somebody will get this error message. They can get around it by rebooting and restarting my application, but the message makes it appear that I've given them a program with a pirated component in it.


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