#Ms visual studio ativation install

Note that this step requires privilege, so you’ll need local admin permissions available. The information in this article applies to: Microsoft Visual Studio. Click on the “Unlock with a Product Key” link:įrom here, enter the key you have obtained from MSDN (my.) or wherever you acquired it from. In Visual Studio 2022 17.8.2, the code-generation has been optimized into: Copy. This renders the VS license dialog and we get our first mention of “product key”. Once the help screen loads, they’ve made a sneaky change here, you need to click on the License status (very small text) at the top right of the dialog: You’ve now fired up Visual Studio, hit the new splash screen and are looking at the VS.Code landing page:Ĭlick on “Continue without code” to fire up the VS IDE. Visual Studio subscriptions are available through various channels.

#Ms visual studio ativation install

I’m going to assume that you’ve already fired up the VS installer and chosen the dev packages you wish to install and that it all completed successfully.

This applies to the full install of the Visual Studio IDE, as opposed to VS.Code which is another proposition entirely. Although the process is almost unchanged, there are yet still some changes so here I am with the next iteration of “registering Visual Studio 2019 with a product key”. This edition follows the continuing trend established a few versions ago in providing two channels of licensing – by using a Microsoft Account or by supplying a product key. Continuing from the experience with Visual Studio 2017, the next edition – Visual Studio 2019 has been out for a while now.