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License Required for Non-License Controls

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
csharp
Domain
desktop

Research direction

Reproduce the exception by opening the WPF window containing Xceed.Wpf.Toolkit.DropDownButton and inspect the XAML around line 143. Read the licensing documentation and the control's construction path to determine whether non-licensed controls should require a license key; done means the expected behavior or a concrete correction is documented.

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Description

My project uses only the non-licensed controls. But when I open a wpf window that uses such a control I get this message:

System.Windows.Markup.XamlParseException
HResult=0x80131501
Message='The invocation of the constructor on type 'Xceed.Wpf.Toolkit.DropDownButton' that matches the specified binding constraints threw an exception.' Line number '143' and line position '7'.
.......
Exception: Xceed.Wpf.Toolkit.Licenser.LicenseKey property must be set to a valid license key in the code of your application before using this product. Please refer to the Licensing topic in the documentation for more information on this exception.

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