Download NetActivation Library.dll

This article will give step-by-step instructions on how to add software licensing (specifically, hardware-locked or node-locked licensing) to your VB.NET app. There's also a full example app (one Windows Forms example and one WPF example) that you can download and play with without needing to add licensing to your app.

Download NetActivation Library.dll

Before you can do anything, you need to login to your LimeLM account (or sign up). Then download TurboActivate for Windows on your API page. That file contains the TurboActivate.dll & TurboActivate.exe along with source code for a complete VB.NET example app (in the "API\VB.NET" directory).

Now, inside your app, you need to create a new TurboActivate object with the Version GUID found on the same page you downloaded the TurboActivate.dat from. In the example app we define the "ta" variable in the "main form" class, and then create the TurboActivate object in the form's constructor: