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When the development system is connected to the Internet, registration is a fairly simple process.
The License Manager communicates the developer credentials and the hardware information for the development system to the licensing web service and then requests a new license key from the licensing web service and installs it; this completes the registration process.
To verify the license has been registered to your machine even before you use the SDK, you can check the registry for the SDK license. Click Start > Run… and then type regedit to open the Registry Editor. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Accusoft > Licensing to view the license(s) registered to your machine. If the selected license cannot be installed on the development system due to connection failures or other reasons, a temporary 15 day grace license is installed so as not to interrupt development while a new license is obtained for the development system.
When the development system is not connected to the Internet during registration, as is the case in some defense or financial institutions, registration is only slightly less simple.
The LM detects that the system is not registered and displays the following dialog: