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I installed Visual Studio 2013 Professional as a Trial version while waiting for my company to complete the license purchase.

They completed the purchase of 4 licenses (64 bit), but were not given Product Keys. Instead, there is a particular .iso file with the license or product key embedded in some way.

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I want to avoid having to uninstall Visual Studio 2013 only to reinstall Visual Studio 2013 and re-setup all my settings. Is this possible? Is there a way to extract the license/product key from the .iso or from other coworkers desktops that did a clean install?

Here is what I have tried (with 2 coworker installations):

1. Looking for the license info in:

   HKLMSOFTWAREWow6432NodeMicrosoftVisualStudio12.0Licenses*

   but it is unique on both computers.

2. Looking for the Product Key in:

   HKLMSOFTWAREWow6432NodeMicrosoftVisualStudio12.0Registration2000.0x0000PIDKEY

   One install had one, which my install said was invalid when attempting to use it. The other install had a blank PIDKEY.

3. Looking inside SW_DVD5_Visual_Studio_Pro_2013_English_MLF_X19-20996.ISO but I see no mention of a License or Product Key.

4. Checking their Help > Register Product in Visual Studio, which simply says

   License: Product key applied

5. Tried doing an install/repair from the ISO but it says:

   The product version that you are trying to set up is earlier than the version already installed on this computer.

   Likely because of the Visual Studio 2013 Update 1 and 2

Again, I would really like to avoid the multi-hour process of reinstalling VS 2013. Is there any way?

1 Answer

I solved this, without having to completely reinstall Visual Studio 2013.

For those who may come across this in the future, the following steps worked for me:

1. Run the ISO (or vs_professional.exe).

2. If you get the error below, you need to update the Windows Registry to trick the installer into thinking you still have the base version. If you don't get this error, skip to step 3

   • Click the link for 'examine the log file' and look near the bottom of the log, for this line:

   • open regedit.exe and do an Edit > Find... for that GUID. In my case it was {6dff50d0-3bc3-4a92-b724-bf6d6a99de4f}. This was found in:

     HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWow6432NodeMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionUninstall{6dff50d0-3bc3-4a92-b724-bf6d6a99de4f}

   • Edit the BundleVersion value and change it to a lower version. I changed mine from 12.0.21005.13 to 12.0.21000.13:

   • Exit the registry

3. Run the ISO (or vs_professional.exe) again. If it has a repair button like the image below, you can skip to step 4.

   • Otherwise you have to let the installer fix the registry. I did this by 'installing' at least one feature, even though I think I already had all features (they were not detected). This took about 20 minutes.

4. Run the ISO (or vs_professional.exe) again. This time repair should be visible.

5. Click Repair and let it update your installation and apply its embedded license key. This took about 20 minutes.

Now when you run Visual Studio 2013, it should indicate that a license key was applied, under Help > Register Product:

Hope this helps somebody in the future!

protected by Bhargav Rao♦Jan 10 '16 at 21:40

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I am a long time developer mixing languages back and forth. The past few years I've mainly been working with .NET and Visual Studio. Whenever I write something in PHP I tend to work with NetBeans IDE (on my mac) and have always been satisfied with the general functionality, the IntelliSense and the included PHPDoc functionality.

And there I am. I really like VS but now it looks like I'm going to do some php-coding again.

Is PHP Tools for Visual Studio a real option when building enterprise-like frameworks?

If not, shall I continue with NetBeans or would that mainly indicate that I'm an old grumpy fart who's afraid of everything new?

I've read some opinions on Jetbrains php ide but the likings have been mixed, there are also many that seem to like zend but as I figured it it's best when you are using the zend frameworks which is a bit of a problem since I create my own frameworks.

It is a bonus if the IDE can run PHP 5.3 and use the build in webserver for real time debugging. Or are there any other strategies on this I should be aware of?

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I use PHP Tools for Visual Studio and I really like it. Mainly because I am primarily an asp.net developer and I feel most comfortable in Visual Studio. It's great that it I can use TFS within Visual Studio to manage my php files. It's also nice that some of the generic CodeRush features work (such as dropping markers). I've found their support to be good. It costs money, but it's reasonable.

To get server side debugging working, follow the steps here:http://xdebug.org/docs/install .
In Visual Studio, you can get to the PHP tools options from the Tools menu. Tools-Options-PHP Tools.

One thing to be aware of is which php.ini file is being used:IIS uses this php.ini:
%ProgramFiles%PHPv5.3php.ini
This php.ini gets used when you debug from Visual Studio:
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I'll mention one more thing since it was a pain to figure out; I have to debug code in the WordPress functions.php file. To get debugging working on functions.php, I first start the VS debugger (by clicking Debug-Start Debugging) on a small test file like this:

With the debugger running, breakpoints will then be hit in functions.php. Be aware that debugging WordPress like this will only work in your default browser.

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Look into VS PHP as an option. I liked it but it's a bit costly.

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Currently I'm using PHP Storm by JetBrains

I use AptanaStudio on Mac. it support remote building and source control integration. its the best heavy weight PHP IDE I have used.

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I have not yet decided what tool I will go with. But people reading here about the praises of PHP Tools should realize that two of the glowing comments are by the co-founder of the company that sells this product -- something that he does not mention.

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