If a component that inherits from a licensed component is created, the licensing information to be stored in the form is still needed. This can be done in two ways:

• Adding a LicenseProvider attribute to the component.

  This will mark the derived component class as licensed. When the component is added to the form, Visual Studio will create and manage the licenses.licx file, and the base class will handle the licensing process as usual. No additional work is needed. For example:

      [LicenseProvider(typeof(LicenseProvider))]
      class MyGrid: C1.Win.C1FlexGrid.C1FlexGrid
      {
        // ...
      }
  

• Adding an instance of the base component to the form.

  This will embed the licensing information into the licenses.licx file as in the previous scenario, and the base component will find it and use it. As before, the extra instance can be deleted after the licenses.licx file has been created.

Please note, that C1 licensing will not accept a run time license for a derived control if the run time license is embedded in the same assembly as the derived class definition, and the assembly is a DLL. This restriction is necessary to prevent a derived control class assembly from being used in other applications without a design time license. If you create such an assembly, you will need to take one of the actions previously described in Creating components at run time.