>>>>Hi,
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>>>>I've bought Telerik RadControls for use in a C# 4.0 WPF desktop application developed using VS 2010 and am struggling on understanding how to distribute it with my Mere Mortals .Net application. I have found a section on installing the Telerik controls in the MM.NET help file, but I think that is how to get them installed on the development machine, not how to install them on the client's machine. I have also found these instructions here
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http://www.telerik.com/help/wpf/protecting-telerik-radcontrols-assembly.html>>>>
>>>>but I am not making sense of them. Has anyone done this before and can give a newbie a helping hand?
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>>>>This looks like it is telling me I need the source code of the controls and then I hav eto merge them into my project. Is there an easier way where I just distribute the actual control as a separate dll or whatever?
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>>>A quick look at that link seems to show that you only need take that approach if you want to compile the Telerik stuff directly into your executable (i.e. same assembly)
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>>>Elsewhere it seems to imply that you simply take the standard approach of referencing the relevant Telerik assemblies in your own assemblies (which presumably is what you have done anyway? ) - which comes down to just making sure those assemblies are present in the same folder as your exe on the production machine....
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>>Funny, I had just decided to see if copying the dlls over would work and that apparently works. Where did you see the reference to just making sure the assemblies are available?
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>If you just copy the dll used for developing, then anyone can use it
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>Looks like there are two options to protect their Intellectual Property
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>(1) Add the dll as an embedded resource ( it won't be visible as a file)
>(2) Protect the dll with a passphrase and add the passphrase to your app.xaml - so only your app cas use the dll
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>Easiest imo is to include all the dlls as embedded resources, you can even deflate them. That way you only have one exe to distribute
Doesn't seem as if Telerik have any objections to you simply distributing the dlls? :
http://www.telerik.com/help/winforms/installation-deployment-and-distribution-application-deployment.html
