I had a trial of Visual Studio 2010 running, but now I've run out of days. When I try to extend the trial it sends me to the Ultimate version for the key extension. I signed up there and everything and got a code, but when I insert it in Visual Studio 2010 it says the code is invalid.
How do I succesfully get a Professional trial key extension?
P.S. The site is also in Japanese for me, which makes it even more difficult.
You can get the correct key by doing the following:
Go to Control Panel -> (Un)Install software;
Browse to your Visual Studio 2010 install and click Remove/Change;
The Visual Studio Maintenance Mode Wizard will load, wait a little and click next when it's done;
On the bottom left of the window you will see a the "Extend Trial" option. When you click this link it will guide you to the correct website. Which is currently: go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=133426
Sign up with your Microsoft account and apply for the trial extension;
Wait for the mail Microsoft sent you and use the provided key the extend your trial. (This code should work!)
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I've installed Visual Studio on my private PC, the version is "Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2019", version 16.1.6.
In order to prepare a job interview, I'd like to do some basic MFC/AFX programming, starting by the basic CMapStringToString example from the Microsoft website.
This, however, seems not to work, as I don't have access to the mentioned file afxcoll.h. Indeed: there is no file, called afx*.h on my PC.
Is this a limitation of my free downloaded Visual Studio installation, or is there any add-in, add-on, extension or whatever I can install in order to work with CMapStringToString objects?
Thanks in advance
You need to explicitly install MFC support in Visual Studio - which you can do on Community editions:
Open Visual Studio Installer from your Start Menu
Click the Modify button
Select the Individual Components tab
Scroll down to SDKs, Libraries and frameworks
Check the various MFC/ATL options for various platforms
I originally had Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise CTP and it's expired. I uninstalled it and installed Visual Studio 2015 RC Community. However, it still says "This license has expired" (and any attempt to sign in fails as I don't have MSDN subscription). I uninstalled Visual Studio 2015 RC Community with /force command-line switch, removed all VSCommon, VisualStudio and Visual Studio disk folders and registry entries, and also Licenses registry subbranches requested by Visual Studio during startup (accordingly sysinternal's Process Monitor), and then reinstalled Visual Studio 2015 RC Community. I also run devenv.exe /resetuserdata (normally and under Administrator) with no luck. I'm running Windows 7 x64 if this matters.
It keeps telling "This license has expired". "Check for an updated license" tries to sign me in with no luck. Signing in with my Live.com account doesn't work (again, only MSDN subscription would suffice there). How else can I make Visual Studio "forget" that I previously had Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise CTP?
Is reinstalling the OS the only solution?
Unlike possible duplicate, I focus here on exact errors which are happening.
Have you tried a simple repair? Control Panel - Programs and Features - Microsoft Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 - Change - Repair.
I had the same problem. Tried uninstall and didn't work. Before going to registry manipulations, tried this:
Close the IDE, go and create your Visual Studio Online free account.
(https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/what-is-visual-studio-online-vs - hope the link works)
Open IDE, and click "Check for updated license".
Login with that account, and hopefully this will work, as with my VS -
"License downloaded successfully".
It turned out that IE8 was the problem. Once I updated to IE11, signing to Live.com finally worked. So, the core of the problem was IE version.
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 was looking at what version of VS 2013 to upgrade to, and discovered that my company qualified as sufficiently small enough to use the VS 2013 Community Edition. So on 19th March, I downloaded it, and took it for a test-drive, building a small app.
But tonight just when I really need to rebuild that app, it tells me my 30-day trial has expired. What 30-day trial? Where was that mentioned?
Any suggestions as to how to get around this? I have a demo to do within a matter of hours, and I'm beginning to panic...
The wording is a bit bad, but once you sign in with a Microsoft Account you get a temporary license assigned that Visual Studio will try to refresh in the background. If the refresh fails for some reason, you will get this message and will need to click the "Check for an updated license" button on the Visual Studio Account screen.
This screenshot is from the Visual Studio 2015 RC, but the way the licensing works is the same:
I have used one license key and want to switch my configuration to use another key.
I tried to launched the uninstall wizard from "Add/Remove Programs" in the Windows Control Panel. When I reinstalled, the license still work.
How can I modify my Visual Studio 2010 installation to use another key, and possibly without uninstalling and reinstalling?
Sorry for not clarifying it at the beginning. Actually, a valid key is not available to me for now. Is there a way to remove the original license completely and use VS as a trial version for days.
Change the serial number after Visual Studio 2010 installation
Go to Control Panel -> Programs and Features, locate and highlight Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate/Premium/Professional installation, and click on Uninstall/Change button.
Upgrade Visual Studio 2010 Product Key for Activation
A Visual Studio setup maintenance screen should be shown. After clicking Next button, an option to enter a valid serial number to upgrade product license is available.
Enter the upgrade key accordingly, and click on Activate button. No re-installation required.
There is a way to edit the product key in a file called Setup.SDB. It should be located in
\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional - ENU\Setup.SDB
Edit this file in a notepad and search for Product key. You can then update the product key.
I actually repaired the installation after this change just to make sure everything was working. This was tested on VS2008 and VS2010