gethardexpiredate

The GetHardExpireDate function retrieves the hard expire date (if any) of an expiring license. If the license is an expire type and under the influence of a hard expire date (past or future), the parameters will return with the hard date and time (to the minute) that the license will expire. Note that this only considers if the license has a hard expire date and ignores period expire dates.

Syntax

HRESULT GetHardExpireDate (

long * ExpireYear,
long * ExpireMonth,
long * ExpireDay,
long * ExpireHour,
long * ExpireMinute,
VARIANT_BOOL * IsExpireType

);

Parameters

ExpireYear

[OUT] This is (a pointer to) a numeric value which returns holding the full Gregorian UTC year in which the licenses hard expire date occurs (2000 or greater).

ExpireMonth

[OUT] This is (a pointer to) a numeric value which returns holding the Gregorian UTC month in which the licenses hard expire date occurs (1 through 12 inclusive).

ExpireDay

[OUT] This is (a pointer to) a numeric value which returns holding the Gregorian UTC day on which the licenses hard expire date occurs (1 through 31 inclusive).

ExpireHour

[OUT] This is (a pointer to) a numeric value which returns holding the military UTC hour at which the licenses hard expire date occurs (0 through 24 inclusive).

ExpireMinute

[OUT] This is (a pointer to) a numeric value which returns holding the UTC minute at which the licenses hard expire date occurs (0 through 59 inclusive).

IsExpireType

[OUT] This is (a pointer to) a boolean value which returns holding a value indicating if the license is currently under the influence of a hard expire date (past or future). Note that once you successfully use a Release All Expiration type of Activation Code on the license, that the license is no longer considered an expire type and this parameter returns false. Always ignore the remaining parameters if this parameter returns containing false.

Remarks

Note: This function is illustrated in the SoftwareShield Flowcharts - (see flow chart #3).

The GetHardExpireDate function retrieves the hard expire date (if any) of an expiring license. If the license is an expire type and under the influence of a hard expire date (past or future), the parameters will return with the hard date and time (to the minute) that the license will expire. Note that this only considers if the license has a hard expire date and ignores period expire dates.

Note that the date and time returned is the UTC (Universal Time Coordinated) time for the expiration, not the local time. If you wish to convert to local time, you must do that operation in code.

If the license is not an expiring type license or has no hard expire date, then IsExpireType will return holding false. If the license is under the influence of a hard expire date (past or future) then IsExpireType will return holding true.

If you instead need to specifically retrieve the expire date only considering the expire period, use GetPeriodExpireDate. If you instead need to retrieve the soonest expire date considering both the hard expire date and the expire period, use GetExpireDate.

Return Value

As with all COM function calls they return an HRESULT. HRESULT is a data type that is a 32-bit error or warning code. Check your compilers documentation for information on interpreting the HRESULT value.

Function Information

Exposed By Interface:	"ISSCProtector"
Exposed In COM Server Binaries:	"SSCProt.dll" and "SSCProtD.dll"