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                 GreenMoose 
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                       Posted - Feb 27 2007 :  03:55:19 AM
                        
                        
                      
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                       Hi,
  Are there technical reasons why the license check integration stuff cannot be started/paused if VA is enabled/disabled use rather than during IDE Startup, or is this done like this for some other reason?
  For instance, if I have several computers but only working with 1 at a time, I must close down all IDEs on all computers except the current one. If I switch between the comps often this gets quite annoying if I currently am in debugging sessions etc.
  Can't the check be implemented both during startup as well as when using the Enable/Disable VA switch instead, so one can just disable VA on the IDE not currently "in use", instead of having to shut down the entire IDE?
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                 feline 
                Whole Tomato Software 
                      
                 
                
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                       Posted - Feb 27 2007 :  1:02:03 PM
                        
                        
                      
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                      |  The simple answer is that the licence check is not an exact science, and it relies on the assumption that two computers running VA is two developers using VA.  I know this is not always true, but it can be hard to tell these two apart. | 
                     
                    
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                       Posted - Feb 28 2007 :  4:51:47 PM
                        
                        
                      
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                       Yet another part of the answer is, "we use a [very good] 3rd party tool for license checking but we don't have complete control of it." We're unable to claim a license is not in use when our exe is still running. Hence, an IDE that complains of exceeding a license still counts as a user until the IDE exits, even it VA X fails to load.
  If only the world was a perfect place... | 
                     
                    
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