How to known from registry which Visual Studio Edition is Installed?
I mean :
VS2013 Pro, Premium, Ultimate and
VS2015 Community, Pro, Enterprise
I read this doc, but it doesn't answer specifically this need.
http://www.mztools.com/articles/2008/MZ2008003.aspx
Any idea?
I just followed the first link from the one you've posted.
VS 2013:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb164659.aspx
VS 2015:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb164659(v=vs.140).aspx
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We have installed Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition on several Computer on my company. And now , as we are going to work on closed-source projects :
is it possible to switch to standard professional license (just like if we did install the professionnal edition) ?
or do we have to reinstall the VS 2015 professional edition on all the computers !
In short, is it possible to switch without reinstall all my 10 PC ?
Best regards.
It is not possible to just enter the VS Professional license key, but you don't have to necessarily uninstall the Community version.
However, you will have to run the VS Professional installer that will upgrade the Community version to the Professional one. This is also suggested here [1].
You will find here [2] an answer to a similar question, stating that although running the installer will upgrade the existing Community edition, uninstalling and reinstalling is recommended.
[1] https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/6202c332-bf73-4073-8ee6-70a3c5402467/upgrading-from-community-to-professional-seems-impossible-how?forum=vssetup
[2] Can Visual Studio Community 2015 be easily updated to Visual Studio Professional 2015
I can't install the Community Edition 2013 of Visual Studio. I always get the following error message:
Visual Studio Professional 2013 is currently installed on this machine.
Please uninstall Visual Studio Professional 2013 and retry.
The problem here is that I never installed Visual Studio Professional 2013. I installed Visual Studio Express 2013 and I uninstalled it because it didn't want to start up.
So why is it telling me such nonsense? Even when I search for Visual Studio I can't find anything on my computer.
How can I install the Community Edition?
Check registry for this key "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\DevDiv\vs\Servicing\12.0\professional". If present remove it.
Then install Community Edition.
Also check registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\DevDiv\vs\Servicing\12.0
Or when in doubt, delete everything! I found that deleting the DevDiv folder in the registry fixed the solution.
I have installed Visual Studio 2013 Pro and then I wanted to install Windows Phone 8 SDK. But it installed Express Edition of VS 2012. Now if I delete VS 2013, what happens with my VS 2012? Can I delete it, because I don't have enough memory for it? Can you help me, please!
They are independent, you can uninstal one without influencing the other.
You can install this version of Visual Studio on a computer that already has an earlier version installed.
but
If you uninstall a version of Visual Studio on a computer that has more than one version installed, the file associations for Visual Studio are removed for all versions.
More information : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms246609.aspx
For testing, I need access to both Professional and Ultimate. I do not see how to open Professional after following these steps:
1. Ultimate previously installed
2. Professional was just installed with no errors
3. Visual Studio 2012 is in Windows 8 (by searching in Start screen) and selecting it brings up Ultimate
4. Professional not seen on the Start screen (just Visual Studio 2012 when searching)
5. Professional not seen in folders (missed it or ??)
I looked through stackoverflow posts as well as documentation but did not see the answer. How do I bring up Professional?
Thanks!
You can't have two different editions of the same VS version installed side-by-side. This requirement is typically best handled by installing Professional into a VM.
You can have two different versions, ie: VS 2012 Ultimate and VS 2013 Professional, however.
I'm helping someone with a new Windows 7 workstation that has two nVidia GPUs and see that MS Visual Studio is required for the complete Cuda 5.5 Toolkit to install properly.
Silly question: is Visual Studio not a free download? Also: there are many different versions of Visual Studio 2012, which should be installed?
Thanks in advance for your comments and suggestions.
Dan
Visual Studio comes in free and non-free versions.
According to the CUDA 5.5 release notes, you need either the full version of Visual Studio 2012 or the free version, which is called Visual Studio Express, and has some limitations compared to the full (paid) version.
You want the version of Visual Studio which is for Desktop use (which includes the C++ environment).
"Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop"