If you are evaluating the product, please select the ImageGear evaluation license option from the initial screen of the License Manager utility. Your license key will be automatically obtained and stored on your computer.

The License Manager utility stores license key in the registry and product samples are configured to read it from the registry.

An Evaluation license enables you to use any features of the product on your machine, however the product behavior will be limited by either the trial dialog pop-ups or evaluation watermarks. Since the ImageGear evaluation defaults to the Trial Dialog mode, an Accusoft Corporation evaluation NAG screen is displayed at regular time intervals. You can turn the product to the Watermark mode by changing the ImGearEvaluationManager.Mode property value. This mode will disable the NAG screen to allow the product to be used in the web services environment, but it will produce, display and print evaluation watermarks instead.

When you evaluate the product, you have to initialize the evaluation manager provided by the ImageGear.Evaluation namespace by calling the Initialize() method of the EvaluationManager Class, and then call the SetSolutionName() method of the ImGearLicense Class object that is provided by the ImageGear.Core namespace. While you are evaluating the ImageGear product, you should specify the value "AccuSoft 5-40-20" (or "AccuSoft 5-41-20" in 64-bit application) on the SetSolutionName Method() call:

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// Initialize evaluation manager. ImGearEvaluationManager.Initialize(); if (IntPtr.Size == 8) //Win64 ImGearLicense.SetSolutionName("AccuSoft 5-41-20"); else //Win32 ImGearLicense.SetSolutionName("AccuSoft 5-40-20");

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' Initialize evaluation manager. ImGearEvaluationManager.Initialize() If (IntPtr.Size = 8) Then 'Win64 ImGearLicense.SetSolutionName("AccuSoft 5-41-20") Else 'Win32 ImGearLicense.SetSolutionName("AccuSoft 5-40-20") End If