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Answered "Invalid product key" error visual studio 2012

  • Friday, September 21, 2012 2:46 PM
     
     
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    I have installed the free visual studio 2012 desktop program, and after I put the product key in that was given to me from my msdn site (after registering) I get the error "invalid product key". This is the first VS to be installed on this particular machine, but I believe my user profile was copied from an old machine, and that machine had VS2010 installed on it. I don't know if there is anything there, just trying to give all the info.
     

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  • Saturday, September 22, 2012 3:23 AM
     
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    Go into control panel add remove programs

    repair VS - add the key during the repair process.

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  • Saturday, September 22, 2012 3:32 AM
     
     
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    I have installed the free visual studio 2012 desktop program, and after I put the product key in that was given to me from my msdn site (after registering) I get the error "invalid product key". This is the first VS to be installed on this particular machine, but I believe my user profile was copied from an old machine, and that machine had VS2010 installed on it. I don't know if there is anything there, just trying to give all the info.

    If ur product Key still fails, plz download FREE Expression version：

    http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/F/5/1F519CC5-0B90-4EA3-8159-33BFB97EF4D9/VS2012_WDX_ENU.iso

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  • Monday, September 24, 2012 12:51 AM
     
     
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    If you still cannot get the answer try to post here instead.

    http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vssetup/threads

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  • Tuesday, September 25, 2012 7:30 AM
     
     
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    Hi ggk12 ,

    From your description , I ‘d like to move this post to  the most related forum .

    There has more  experts in this aspect  , so you will get  better support and  may have more luck getting answers .

    Thanks for your understanding .

    Regards ,

    Lisa Zhu [MSFT]
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  • Tuesday, September 25, 2012 7:39 AM
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    Hi ggk12,

    Thanks for your post here.

    For license issue,I recommend you call 1-800-426-9400, Monday through Friday, 6:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. (Pacific Time) to speak directly to a Microsoft licensing specialist, and you can get more detail information from there. Worldwide customers can use the Guide to Worldwide Microsoft Licensing Sites to find contact information in their locations:
    http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/

    What's more, you can try as Dave mentioned to retype your key. I'm afraid just copy your user profile will not enable Visual Studio.

    Regards, 

    Barry Wang [MSFT]
    MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us