They can’t or won’t even provide a filter to allow you to choose which product you wish to see when you view your list of registered products. They can’t – or won’t – even remove or delete registered products that you no longer use. For once in the EDN licensing system – a system which as far as I can tell hasn’t been updated in at least a decade – getting anything changed is as good as impossible. My first panicked thought was that my personal license serial number had been automatically applied to my employers EDN account, used to previously register the initial license used. XE4 started normally and informed me that indeed it was already registered. Once finished, I launched XE4 expecting to be presented with the registration/activation wizard to register and activate the new serial number.īut no. This is what I was doing, even if it was for the same edition.ĭespite the fact that the installation was identical, it took just as long as a fresh install. Seeing no other obvious way to achieve this, I re-ran the installer and chose the “Update” option, which mentions that this is the appropriate choice if applying a new license. Having installed and activated using a previous license serial number, I needed to now update my installation with a different license serial number. In this case, my problem was that I couldn’t provoke the damned thing to allow me to do it! Ironic, because normally complaints about registration and activation revolve around being forced to do it at all. This uncovered something of an ironic problem. Having installed and activated Delphi XE4 using the license available to me from my employer I decided that, despite the very nasty taste left in my mouth, I would pay the $49 required for the XE4 “hot-fix” release, albeit only in order to remain with the valid update window now imposed by Embarcadero, on the off-chance that one of the next two releases might actually be worthwhile.
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