Vs 2008 Pro Edition Key
Hi I have an Visual Studio 2008 Pro trial version installed which is about to expire (VS2008ProEdition90dayTrialENUX1435622.iso). I would like to know how to upgrade this to the licenced version. I have a full subscription to MSDN and tried to download VS 2008 (no product key given) Pro but got 'error launching file transfer manager' (download page: ).
I am running XP SP3. Internet Explorer 8. Note that I do want 2008 and NOT 2010. Could you let me know the best way to upgrade from trial to full version?
Upgrading trial Visual Studio 2008 to. I have a full subscription to MSDN and tried to download VS 2008 (no product key given) Pro but got 'error.
Hi menzieseii, Thank you for your post in MSDN forum! As your concern, would you like to register your Visual Studio 2008? At first, trial can only be used for a limited amount of time, usually 90 to 180 days. After that time period has expired, you cannot use the product again without a valid product key. You could get Product Key from DVD/CD or online.
You could click the following link: After you get Product Key, you could upgrade your product. You could refer the following steps. On the Start menu, click Control Panel 2. In Control Panel, open Add or Remove Programs. Select Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional and then click Change/Remove. On the Visual Studio 2008 Maintenance screen, enter the product key in the section Upgrade to Visual Studio 2008 Professional and then click Upgrade. Look forward for your good news!
Hope this helps you! If you have any doubts and concerns, please feel free to let me know. We are going to continue to follow-up.
Best Regards Larcolais Gong Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help. Hi menzieseii, Thank you for your post in MSDN forum! As your concern, would you like to register your Visual Studio 2008? At first, trial can only be used for a limited amount of time, usually 90 to 180 days. After that time period has expired, you cannot use the product again without a valid product key. You could get Product Key from DVD/CD or online.
You could click the following link: After you get Product Key, you could upgrade your product. Crredist2008_x64.msi (for 64 bit). You could refer the following steps. On the Start menu, click Control Panel 2. In Control Panel, open Add or Remove Programs.
Select Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional and then click Change/Remove. On the Visual Studio 2008 Maintenance screen, enter the product key in the section Upgrade to Visual Studio 2008 Professional and then click Upgrade.
Look forward for your good news! Hope this helps you! If you have any doubts and concerns, please feel free to let me know. We are going to continue to follow-up. Best Regards Larcolais Gong Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help. Thanks Larcolais I misread your point 3 and removed VS 2008 Trial altogether so had to do a few more steps. As the product was purchased via an MSDN licence, I had to do the following: 1.
Download VS 2008 Professional. You may have to take option to install an active x item before Microsoft File Transfer Manager can download the file. Mount the downloaded file (envisualstudio2008professionalx86dvdx14-26326.iso) as a virtual DVD drive using Virtual Control Panel (VCdControlTool.exe) 4. Run setup.exe 5.
The downloaded file was 'pre-pidded' i.e. The MSDN licence purchase did not require me to enter a licence key, therefore the Visual Studio Maintenance dialog that displays during run of setup.exe already contains a licence key, and the Product Key textboxes are disabled. Many thanks for you help. Kind Regards menzieseii.
Here is a more-or-less complete guide to upgrading Visual Studio 2008 trial to pro in Windows 7. Download and install/unzip AnVir Task Manager Free (portable version here: ). Go to Start - Control Panel - Programs and Features. Select Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional ENU, click Uninstall/Change at the top of the list. Wait for the maintenance program to launch. When it does, click 'Next ' from the FIRST screen.
On the SECOND screen you will see three options: 'Add or Remove Features', 'Repair/Reinstall', 'Uninstall Microsoft Visual Studio 2008'. DO NOT click ANY of them.
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The controls you want are hidden just under these three options. Launch AnVir Task Manager as an Administrator. (If you don't do this, you won't be able to enable the controls.). In the Applications tab, find Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Setup - Maintenance Page. Right-click this item and select 'Detalied Info'. It may be helpful to heighten the bottom panel that appears now, if your screen is big enough. In the bottom panel, click 'Windows'.
In the bottom panel, expand 'Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Setup - Maintenance Page'. In the list that appears, several items appear to have no name. The bottom four items, which do have names, are 'Visual Studio Setup Banner'. Expand the anonymous item just above these four named items. In the newly expanded item, you will see a number of lines, the icons for which are grayed out. This indicates they are hidden. For each disabled line, right-click and select 'Visible', then right-click and select 'Enabled'.
Don't forget to include the item in this list labeled 'Upgrade' - that is the button to submit the license key data. Check your Visual Studio maintenance window (we last looked at this in step 5). You should see the controls to enter your license key there. Put in the license key and click 'Upgrade'. If you get stuck at one of these steps, it's possible that your maintenance window is varied slightly from mine.
Once you get the main window expanded in AnVir, nose around in the hidden controls until you see the 'Upgrade' button, and then make sure all controls that are siblings of that control are enabled. If you can reproduce it, it would be worth sending it as feedback (do you have the 'send feedback' links on every window like I do?). I could give it a try, but I've already installed Team Suite on my physical Windows 7 machine, so I'd need to sort out a fresh VM to give it a go. Actually, though - it probably isn't a good idea to activate your upgrade (for real) on the beta Windows 7; at some point, you are going to have to scratch that OS completely.
I agree that if the option is meant to be there, then it's absense is a problem. But I haven't used 'trial' before, so I don't know if it is meant to exist!