Nservicebus: New license "form"

[danielmarbach]

The current licensing uses a WindowsForm to remind users from renewing the license. dotnet core doesn't support Windows Form. We need to come up with a different way to remind users to renew the license.

[danielmarbach]

One idea would be that we embedd a license HTML page into core and start a process to open up that HTML file. Short investigations have shown System.Diagnostics.Process is available and supported on all platforms

[SimonCropp]

My vote is for removing the dialog and only logging an error. Defer the license nagging to our other tooling

[danielmarbach]

I talked to @ryansteinparticular and he said the license form is an important piece of the revenue stream. We cannot assume that every body uses the whole platform. Therefore I vote to have nagging still in place in the core

[danielmarbach]

@Particular/platform-dev-squad Is this something we should take into account for our next initiative since it also impacts new users.

[timbussmann]

@danielmarbach suggestion to open a HTML page seems to be a simple solution :+1:

[bording]

@danielmarbach suggestion to open a HTML page seems to be a simple solution :+1:

How would this work on non-Windows platforms? If we're running .NET Core, we could be on a linux box that doesn't even have a gui, so there isn't going to be a way to launch a web browser to display a page.

[boblangley]

Tackle it when we support .net core?

On Tue, May 17, 2016, 8:57 AM Brandon Ording [email protected]
wrote:

@danielmarbach https://github.com/danielmarbach suggestion to open a
HTML page seems to be a simple solution [image: :+1:]

How would this work on non-Windows platforms? If we're running .NET Core,
we could be on a linux box that doesn't even have a gui, so there isn't
going to be a way to launch a web browser to display a page.

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[danielmarbach]

Great that the neurons are triggering, my only intention though was to
bring this to the awareness of the squad for the next initiative ;)

[johnsimons]

IMHO this is a change to the platform, something that needs to be addressed across all our products to reflect consistency in the UX, hence I would propose moving this to plat dev

[particularbot]

copied to https://github.com/Particular/PlatformDevelopment/issues/817

[danielmarbach]

@johnsimons moved

[adamralph]

Unfortunately Process.Start("https://particular.net") does not work in .NET core for Windows, but only on Linux/MacOS! See https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues/4794

FYI the proposed first run dialog will pose the same problem as the license dialog. See https://github.com/Particular/OptimizeTrialExtensions/issues/114#issuecomment-255069008