You can easily download an evaluation version of Aspose.AdHoc from the download page. The evaluation version provides absolutely the same capabilities as the licensed version of the component. Furthermore, evaluation version simply becomes licensed when you add a couple of lines of code to apply the license.

Evaluation Version Limitations

Evaluation version of Aspose.AdHoc (without a license specified) provides full product functionality, but it will show a button on the AdHoc componet, and the button's caption indicates that this is a "evaluation copy", further more, a dialog box saying "This is Evaluation Copy of AdHoc" will be showed while handling the AdHoc.PageChange event.

The drawing below shows the evaluation button:

Note: If you want to test Aspose.AdHoc without evaluation version limitations, you can also request a 30 Day Temporary License. Please refer to How to get a Temporary License?

Setting a License

The license is a plain text XML file that contains details such as the product name, number of developers it is licensed to, subscription expiry date and so on. The file is digitally signed, so don’t modify the file. Even inadvertent adding of an extra line break into the file will invalidate it.

You need to set a license before using it on the page. It is only required to set a license once per application (or process).

The easiest way to set a license is to put the license file in the same folder as the .aspx file which is a page containing an Aspose.AdHoc component and specify the file name as shown in the following example:

Example

[C#]

License license = new License();

license.SetLicense(Server.MapPath(@".\Aspose.AdHoc.Oem.xml"));

[VB .NET]

Dim license As License = New License

license.SetLicense(Server.MapPath(".\Aspose.AdHoc.Oem.xml"))