Considering starting to use Aspose Words

Aspose.Words Product Family
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Hi
I tried to contact sales about this, but was referred to the forum. I hope this is the correct category.
I work for a small software company. A part of our software imports word documents (doc, docx). We have been using a third party software for converting these documents to HTML. We are having some issues with the software we are using and as considering exchanging it. We have some requirements, and I wanted to you about these things:

  1. Our software is based on .NET 6 (probably update to 8 once it is released) C#, from what I understand you are compatible with this?
  2. Our software is deployed on our clients servers for their usage. This means that the word->html tool also needs to be deployed. Sometimes these servers are not exposed to internet, so we need the conversion tool to run in process, and not be dependent on external API or similar. Will this work with Aspose?
  3. How is the activation/reactivation process when this is deployed on clients servers? Is this something that need to be performed often?

I hope someone has the time to answer :slight_smile:

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@Hstalh

  1. Sure Aspose.Words is compatible with .NET 6 or newer. Please see our documentation for more information:
    https://docs.aspose.com/words/net/system-requirements/

  2. Aspose.Words does not require internet connection, it is a standalone class library for document processing.
    Internet connection might be required if your document contains resources, which should be loaded from internet, such as external images. If there is no internet such resources will be not loaded.

  3. The license must be applied in the code to make Aspose.Words to work in licensed mode:
    https://docs.aspose.com/words/net/licensing/
    The license should be applied only once per application domain, for example, on application start or in static constructor.

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Hi @alexey.noskov
Thanks for the quick and positive response.

  1. Great
  2. Sure, if they need to fetch outside resources that is something completely different.
  3. This looks really promising. So we get a license-file when we purchase a license - and this file can then be included in our installation files? Or do we need to generate the license file for each domain/installation? (We had issues with this on our previous software, because some clients moved our software to new servers, and the application started running in evaluation mode.)
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@Hstalh Yes, you will receive a license file, which can be included into your application, for example, as an embedded resource.

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Thank you @alexey.noskov !
This sounds great. We’ll initiate some testing before we decide.

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@Hstalh Please let us know if you need more assistance, we are always glad to help you.