Before DicomObjects can be used on any machine (physical or virtual), a list of unique MachineIDs is generated and used in the licence activation process.

We offer two main alternatives to the conventional licensing mechanism, which is tied to per PC based on its MachineID (unique identifier for every PC)

This is a new licensing model to deal with environments such as AWS where the hosted servers where they constantly change their machine ID (which is tied to the licence) and as a result the licence activated becomes invalid; which has becomes a problem for developers to re-activate the licence on their customers' system.

There are many different ways to activate a DicomObjects or XdsObjects licence:

1. Programmatically
2. Licence manager
3. Offline activation
4. Application signing licence

This page describes the initial steps you could follow to troubleshoot a licensing problem.

It’s possible and very easy to customize our DicomObjects.NET licence activation dialog: