Hi Lutz,

I take your points on functionaly cover of the product which may not suit your needs and about the quality of the Web site. I understand by the way that this is a one-person shop (and not a native English-language or North-of-Europe-language speaker by the way).

>>As far as I concerned, I accept to pay a "one-shot" fee for a product that allow my clients not to care about their MS-Excel install or even, should they want to, have no MS-Excel install at all.

>Oh it's not the fee. This is minor. The problem is that I need to install some payment app for this. I've stoped dealing with the whole stuff as I read this.

>snip
>When the trial version is expired (after 15 days) or you'd like to make a purchase of a license upfront, there is a License Tool installed as part of the software that takes you >to the xlsgen website.
>/snip

>What should that be good for? If there is not enough trust in me, I give not away my trust. As simple as that.

I possibly did not catch what was behind the software protection. I reckoned that it was the traditional dll+lic file pattern with no intrusion whatsoever on the developper but I may be wrong.

http://xlsgen.arstdesign.com/deployment.html

and specifically this part where they explain you can drop the lic file content right into the single unique deployment dll: "If you are an ISV deploying the xlsgen run-time and would like to embed the xlsgen.license.lic file inside xlsgen.dll as a resource so that there is really a single file to deploy"

I'll check it with their suport and report.

Daniel