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by to11mtm
1715 days ago
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Closest I can think of is the days of yore where .NET Component licensing was a thing that was encountered frequently enough it was mentioned more prominently in books. This was useful for a lot of 3rd party developers that wanted to provide either tooling or runtime libraries to IT Shops. UI Toolkits and other 'specialized' libraries would use this mechanism as a way to keep some level of IP Protection. I ran into this scheme in the wild with Devart's DotConnect for Oracle; at the time it was worlds better than the free 1st party providers, and came with some interesting T4 templates for generating models for either EF or their special adaptation of L2S, and MVC CRUD HTML generation. Fairly cheap for an unlimited site license too. |
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