How To Enter License Key On VS 2008 Pro Trial?

Question

_{Thursday, August 21, 2008 4:34 PM}

I downloaded a trial version of Visual Studio 2008 Professional and I have a license key from MSDN that I would like to use to take off the time trial.  Can someone please tell me how I can do this?  I do not wish to uninstall Visual Studio and then reinstall it.

All replies (2)

_{Thursday, August 21, 2008 5:57 PM ✅Answered}

Hi Avarice. You can do this:

Go to the Help Menu, and then select Register Product.

Regards [:O]

_{Tuesday, July 7, 2009 8:17 PM}

Registering the product will not give you the option to enter a product key.  You need to run the setup program and enter the product key in there (you don't need to reinstall - just enter a valid product key).  See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc442563.aspx for instructions.