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How to find my isual Studio License key?
Hello Experts,
I would like to seek your help regarding my Visual Studio License key. I would like to know how to find
the licese key. I am new so I try to look into the registry as such
I get lost on I don't know where I need to go to look for the licensekey under Visual Studio -> 14.0.
Could you help?
Besides the looking at the registry , is there any other way to find the license key; for example, running a cmd line
or something ele that may you show me.
Thank you Experts for the helps.
Du
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Castorix31 85,881 Reputation points
2022-03-31T17:21:51.68+00:00 -
minh tran 211 Reputation points
2022-03-31T18:05:03.873+00:00 Thank you so much for the direction on where to look for the license key.
I am having Visusal Studio 10 and Visual Studio 14.0. I see there are so many license key under LicensesI don't know which one that I need to look for Visual Studio 10.0 , and Visual Studio 14.0
Many Thanks,
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minh tran 211 Reputation points
2022-03-31T19:03:46.547+00:00 Thank you so much.
May I ask which license belong to VS 2010 and VS 2014 since there are so many of them in Hexadecimal and I can not figure out which Hexadecimal belong to VS 2010 and VS 2014Is it 096EFabb-6EBF ...?
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Anna Xiu-MSFT 29,831 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
2022-04-01T05:38:09.723+00:00 Hi @minh tran ,
As Castorix31 said, the 14.0 means the Visual Studio 2015, the license key of Visual Studio 2015 is 4D8CFBCB-2F6A-4AD2-BABF-10E28F6F2C8F.
Sincerely,
Anna
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minh tran 211 Reputation points
2022-04-01T13:31:40.58+00:00 Thank you so much for the Great help!
I got the license key for my visual studio as shown below in my photo. Since I am new, I apolorize for asking a "Dumb question" regarding using this License key for a new installation of Visual Studio 2015 in a new machine.
Can I use this license key 4D8CFBCB-2F6A-4AD2-BABF-10E28F6F2C8F for the new Visual Studio 2015 installation in my new machine ? If I can use this, would the license key 4D8CFBCB-2F6A-4AD2-BABF-10E28F6F2C8F always THE SAME on every new machines ?My picture