Handling License Key File Name and Environment Variable Name Changes in the 2025 Q1 Release
Environment
| Version | Product | Author |
|---|---|---|
| Q1 2025 | Telerik Document Processing | Desislava Yordanova |
Description
After downloading the License Key file by using the VS2022 extensions menu:
when building a simple console app with the Telerik Document Processing libraries, you get the following error:
Solution
It may be caused by an old KENDO_UI_LICENSE environment variable. So, delete it and invoke refreshenv command. If the rebuild has the same error again:
1. Go to telerik.com and generate a new License Key.
2. Compare the license key with the one downloaded from the extensions. If it indeed looks different than the one VS2022 got, replace the original telerik-license.txt file with the newly downloaded one.
3. Next, restart VS2022 (to ensure it has a fresh copy env vars) and compile the project. It is expected to work:
