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How to get the product key for Visual Studio 2008 that is already installed.

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Open the registry editor. Start-> Run-> type “Regedit” without quotes.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Visual studio\9.0\Registration

When you select “Registration”, at the right hand side, you would see “PIDKEY” that has 25 alphanumeric characters. That is the product key.

If you do not find it under registration, expand “Registration” and select the next key under that . Ex: 1000.0.0000 and there we should be able to see the PIDKEY.

If we want to check for Visual studio 2005 look for : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Visual studio\8.0\Registration

 

Content by : Parameswary Annamalai

Reviewed by : Soumitra Mondal

Comments

  • Anonymous
    May 10, 2015
    Microsoft -- mail me an answer as how to get vb2008 registered.