LabVIEW Third Party Licensing & Activation Toolkit Readme

Version 15.0.0

June 2015

This file contains important information about the LabVIEW Third Party Licensing & Activation Toolkit, including installation instructions, upgrade issues, and known issues.

Overview

System Requirements

Installation Instructions

Upgrade Issues

Known Issues

Accessing the Help

Finding Examples

Overview

The Third Party Licensing & Activation Toolkit enables you to license the add-ons that you create with LabVIEW. Users of a licensed add-on must evaluate or activate the add-on according to the activation methods you allow.

System Requirements

In addition to the system requirements for the LabVIEW Development System, the Third Party Licensing & Activation Toolkit has the following requirements:

• LabVIEW 2011 or later
• At least 50 MB of disk space

Refer to the LabVIEW Readme for additional system requirements and supported operating systems for LabVIEW.

Installation Instructions

You can download and install Third Party Licensing & Activation Toolkit from LabVIEW Tools Network. For more information about the toolkit, visit the Third Party Licensing & Activation Toolkit community.

Upgrade Issues

If you use the Application Builder to build installers for add-ons, update the executable that automatically runs and calls RegisterAddon.exe when an installer runs. National Instruments recommends that you call RegisterAddon.exe with the following command line: RegisterAddon.exe -- -s -l path_to_lvlib. The -s parameter enforces a more secure form of licensing when customers install the add-on for use with LabVIEW 2011 SP1 and later. For each installer, update the VI that serves as source for the executable that calls RegisterAddon.exe, rebuild the executable, and then rebuild the installer.

Refer to the Toolkits»Third Party Licensing & Activation Toolkit»Licensing a Development Add-on»Adding Standard Licensing»Final Step: Package the Add-on for Distribution topic on the Contents tab of the LabVIEW Help for more information about building and distributing add-on installers.

Known Issues

You can access the software and documentation known issues list online. Refer to the National Instruments website for an up-to-date list of known issues in the Third Party Licensing & Activation Toolkit.

Accessing the Help

Refer to the Toolkits»Third Party Licensing & Activation Toolkit book on the Contents tab in the LabVIEW Help for more information about the Third Party Licensing & Activation Toolkit.

Finding Examples

Select Help»Find Examples from LabVIEW to launch the NI Example Finder. LabVIEW examples for the Third Party Licensing & Activation Toolkit are located in the labview\examples\addonlicensing directory. You can modify an example VI to fit an application, or you can copy and paste from one or more examples into a VI that you create.

Legal Information

Copyright

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End-User License Agreements and Third-Party Legal Notices

You can find end-user license agreements (EULAs) and third-party legal notices in the following locations after installation:

• Notices are located in the <National Instruments>\_Legal Information and <National Instruments> directories.
• EULAs are located in the <National Instruments>\Shared\MDF\Legal\license directory.
• Review <National Instruments>\_Legal Information.txt for information on including legal information in installers built with NI products.

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Patents

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