Registration and Licensing

 

Trial period

Once you install CodeGuide, it is licensed for a 20 day trial. This means that you can try CodeGuide on 20 different days (these days must not be consecutive) before you have to decide if you want to buy a license or stop using CodeGuide.

 

Each time you start CodeGuide you will see for how many further days you are allowed to try CodeGuide or if it has expired:

 

 

 

Registration

You can purchase CodeGuide from Omnicore Software.

 

Once you purchased CodeGuide you will receive a serial number of the form XXXXXXX-XXXXXXX-XXXXXXX-XXXXXXX which will enable you to use the software when the trial has expired.

 

You can initiate registration of your copy either by pressing the Register... button in the Trial dialog or by choosing the Help | Registration menu entry.

 

You will see this dialog:

 

 

Enter the serial number in the text field, the OK button will be enabled once you enter a correct serial number.

 

Now press the OK button.

 

You will see this dialog:

 

 

You have the choice to bind the serial number to

 

 

In this case the serial number is stored in the current user's home directory.

 

 

In this case the serial number is stored in the application home directory.

 

After making your choice press the OK button.

 

Please note that no information is submitted to Omnicore Software during the registration process. Instead the serial number is verified and stored in the specified location.

 

 

License management

The license file is stored in a file named codeguide-6.0.ser on Windows and .codeguide-6.0.ser on Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris.

 

Once CodeGuide is started it tries to find the serial number file in the current user's home directory. If it cannot be found there it will be looked for in the application home directory. If a serial number CodeGuide will start using this serial number otherwise it will start in Trial Mode.

 

Please make sure that you do not run two instances of CodeGuide with the same serial number on multiple computers at the same time. CodeGuide includes a license management solution which detects if two copies of CodeGuide on the local network are using the same serial number and a warning dialog will pop up if this condition is detected.

 

Please note that no data is transmitted to Omnicore Software or anywhere else besides the local network to verify this condition.

 

The best way to ensure this is to have one serial number for either each computer CodeGuide runs on or for each developer who uses CodeGuide.

 

You can always change the serial number of the current copy by using the Help | Registration menu entry.