Licensing for rapi.dll

[Guest micropathic]

If I wrote a program that utilized the rapi.dll to transfer files to/from the smartphone, would I need licensing approval from Microsoft before distibuting my software?

[Guest spacemonkey]

A more important question, on a normal user configured phone does rapi.dll work?

Certainly for rapiconfig use to push developer certificates etc onto the phone a security setting for the phone has to be set a specific way. On normal "locked" consumer phones this isn't set...

As far as licensing is concerned, if you can assume that every user has rapi.dll already (ie that it's part of activesync) then you're are fine, you'd only have a problem potentially if you wanted to start distributing rapi.dll along with your application.

[Guest micropathic]

Thanks for replying so quickly.

Yes, that was another question i had (if it will work if the phone has not been decertified). I know that the software I'm working on doesn't actually install anything on the smartphone device itself, however it does make calls to the rapi.dll.

[Guest Paul [MVP]]

RAPI functionality does not work on a locked phone...

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[Guest micropathic]

Another question I have which may be a little off topic, but would be useful information for me is:

Do you need the "enterprise"or "developer" version of Visual Basic to sell or deploy applications you develop, or can you do that with the "standard" version?

Thanks in advance.

[Guest]

I think (and it has been quite a few years since I used VB) that you are free to sell applications that you have created using any version of VB (apart from some Student / Accademic licences).

The Enterprise / Developer / Standard tags denote what extras are included with the IDE - for example Enterprise has extra SQL / Back Office tools that aren't included in the Standard Edition.