Documentation · SoftActivate Licensing

The Licensing Demo

The Windows SDK installer ends by launching the Licensing Demo (bin\x64-windows\licensing_demo.exe, also available from the Start Menu), a small desktop app that demonstrates the SDK against the hosted licensing service without any setup or code. It shows you everything these docs describe in a live, working example.

What it demonstrates

  • Activate & validate: the full activate-and-validate loop from the quickstarts.
  • Device identity: what the hardware fingerprint looks like from the SDK's point of view.
  • Deactivation: releasing the seat, the move-machines flow.
  • The offline-activation round-trip: the air-gapped exchange, request to import, on one screen.
  • A samples browser: the installed SDK samples, with run and open actions.

Two ways to use it

If you are just evaluating, the tool runs out of the box against a shared SoftActivate demo tenant, with working license keys already configured. There is nothing to set up.

Once you have your own tenant, switch the tool to your vendor id and license key. It then exercises your licensing setup, which makes it a convenient way to check your console configuration before you write any code. Create your free account from Getting started.

Requirements

Windows with the WebView2 runtime, preinstalled on Windows 10 and 11. On stripped-down images, install Microsoft's Evergreen WebView2 runtime first.