My name is Thanos and I'm a student from Greece. Through DreamSpark's site I was licenced in VS Ultimate 2013 distribution. I managed to install it on my Desktop computer as well as my laptop and save the .iso file in both my computers but I didn't save the Product Key, because I knew any time wanted I could retrieve it from my order history. Now the problem is that dreamspark stoped the distribution VS Ultimate and hence they couldn't help to retrieve the key when I contact them. Is there any way to retrieve the key myself or do something so that I don't lose my credentials and my licence to the product?
Unfortunately you will not be able to retrieve the key.
Both the subscriber download of VS Ultimate 2013 and the key are removed from Dreamspark.
Why not use VS 2015?
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I have installed Visual Studio 2017 Professional with a product key.
Now I would like to install VS 2017 Professional on a different machine. How can I retrieve the product key used in the first installation?
I googled and found VS no longer stores keys directly in the registry. Instead, there's a new way to extract the key. I followed the links below:
How to change Visual Studio 2017 license key?
Updating registry settings for Visual Studio 2017
However, I could not find the exact location where the product key is stored.
You can find MS VS 2017 product key information from: https://my.visualstudio.com/productkeys
I have answered this in
Retrieve Visual Studio 2017 (Enterprise) Key from privateregistry
. Note that you will need to change the registry path to end with 2 (Professional) instead of 0 (Enterprise).
I have Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 on my PC but need to remove it's product key and apply it on another (work) computer. I thought my MSDN account provided multiple installations and as I found out, it doesn't. BTW, I'm using Windows 7.
Have anyone done this before?
Thanks in advance.
I believe if you back up your project and then uninstall Visual Studio, it takes that key off that computer as it's no longer installed, therefor it wouldn't be attached. So i believe it's as simple as:
Backup your projects.
Uninstall Visual Studio From That PC.
Install Visual Studio Into The New Computer.
Copy your projects to your new computer.
Install the key into the newly installed Visual Studio
I hope this helps!
I'm not able to get registration key for visual studio 2010 express (or 2012 express).
If I'm clicking the "get registration key" in visual studio and the browser tells me "page not found".
This is the link VS tries to open: go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=163982
Can anyone tell me how to get registration key?
Many thanks!
I used the offline installer (from DVD) - registration is required anyway (It seams that some people think in that case no key is reqired ...)
You should get Visual Studio 2012 Express free from Microsoft website by telling you're a student. In alternative you can register for Microsoft Dreamspark And can get VS 2013 Professional for free.
You can get one Community version of Visual Studio 2013 Here;
https://www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-community-vs
Its FREE for Students.
I have to reinstall my Windows 7. Do I have to obtain a new registration key for my Visual Studio Express 2010/Community 2013 or I can use my old key from previous installation?
Best Regards,
Jacek
I do know that express is a free version. If you are talking about registration keys as in free to premium, then you do not have to worry as all your codes save via cloud and you don't have to get a new one.
My university has several programs available for download. About 6 months ago I downloaded visual studio 2010 ultimate edition. I am not sure if it is the trial version. I don't think so because I've been using it for about 6 months and I have not had to extend any trial. Moreover, I don't get the splash screen that says for evaluation purposes only. I used to have that screen on a trial of visual studio profesional edition that I had in my previos computer. If I dont have a trial version that means I can distribute my applications?
In Help > About Microsoft Visual Studio you can see licensing information. Mine says that it is licensed to me (yay!) and yours should say something similar.
I am not sure about volume licensing, because ours has been bought through an Open Value contract and we have MSDN accounts for every developer, so you have to download your own product key from the MSDN site. Perhaps there are versions of 2010 which do not require you to enter a product key in a different volume licensing contract, but I am not aware of those.
Really though, if you are on a student edition you are not supposed to use it for commercial applications. Just be safe and buy a copy if you are going to distribute your applications (especially commercially).
For those students out there, as a point of interest, Microsoft offers a lot of free software on dreamspark.com (Visual studio 2010 Professional included) in which you should have no problems distributing your own applications - You just need a .edu email.
Regardless of whether Visual Studio is prompting you to purchase a full version, you've obtained your copy via your university. Your best bet is to ask someone in your university's IT department.
You also probably signed an agreement as part of your enrolment which would clarify this.