Windows® Phone 8 Unleashed

Abstracting the LicenseInformation Class

The downloadable sample code includes a custom ILicenseService interface, which contains a single property called Trial, indicating the trial state of the app. There are two implementations of this interface: one for testing and one for production.

The production implementation named LicensingService wraps a LicenseInformation instance, as shown in the following excerpt:

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public class LicensingService : ILicensingService{    public bool Trial    {        get        {            LicenseInformation licenseInformation                                    = new LicenseInformation();            return licenseInformation.IsTrial();        }    }}

During development and testing, the ...