# License Key Configuration

An Ext.NET license key can be purchased online at ext.net/pricing.

A license key is required to run your Ext.NET app on any location other than your local development machine.

Once a license key has been purchased, you will be sent an email with a key included.

To add the license key to your Ext.NET Classic project, two easy steps are required:

Please protect your license key

Please do not commit your Ext.NET license key to a public source code repository or share anywhere outside of your organization. It is your responsibility to protect your license key.

# Two steps to unlock

# 1️⃣ Set license key

In your project root, at the same level as the .csproj file, do you have an appsettings.json file? If no, please create that file, then add the following ExtNET configuration section. Replace your-license-key-here with your actual license key string.

{
    "ExtNET": {
        "LicenseKey": "your-license-key-here"
    }
}

If your project already has an appsettings.json file, the final content might look something like the following:

{
    "Logging": {
        "LogLevel": {
            "Default": "Information",
            "Microsoft": "Warning",
            "Microsoft.Hosting.Lifetime": "Information"
        }
    },
    "AllowedHosts": "*",
    "ExtNET": {
        "LicenseKey": "your-license-key-here"
    }
}

# 2️⃣ Copy to output directory

Within your projects .csproj file, add the following section inside the <Project> node:

<ItemGroup>
    <None Update="appsettings.json">
        <CopyToOutputDirectory>Always</CopyToOutputDirectory>
    </None>
</ItemGroup>

The above section instructs the build process to copy the appsettings.json to your /bin folder during compilation. Your appsettings.json file should be deployed along side your projects compiled .dll files.

Your Ext.NET project should now run on any web server.