How do I get the serial key for Visual Studio Express

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I am Visual Studio 2010 Professional user  But for a reason I need Visual Web Developer 2008 Express edition   I downloaded this  but I need the serial key to activate the product  otherwise it will expire in 30 days   When I go there  I got this error    Thank you for your interest in registering Visual Studio  We are currently experiencing issues with the registration process  We are working on this and will have it fixed as soon as possible  Please try to register your product again at a later time  We apologize for the inconvenience    I tried for a long time  but I got the same error every time  Is there any other way to get the serial key

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Visual C  Express 2005 ISO File does not require registration

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The question is about VS 2008 Express   Microsoft s web page for registering Visual Studio 2008 Express has been dead  404  for some time  so registering it is not possible   Instead  as a workaround  you can temporarily remove the requirement to register VS2008Exp by deleting  or renaming  the registry key   HKEY CURRENT USER Software Microsoft VCExpress 9 0 Registration   To ensure that this is working beforehand  click Help -  register product within VS2008   You should see text like       You have not yet registered your copy of Visual C   2008 Express   Edition  This product will run for 10 more days before you will be   required to register it     Close the application  delete that key  reopen  click help- register product   The text should now say       You have not yet registered your copy of Visual C   2008 Express   Edition  This product will run for 30 more days before you will be   required to register it     So you have two options - delete that key manually every 30 days  or run it from a batch file that also contains a line like   reg delete HKCU Software Microsoft VCExpress 9 0 Registration  f    Edit  User  i486 confirms on testing that this workaround works even after the expiration period has expired    Edit2  User  Wyatt8740 has a much more elegant way to prevent the value from reappearing

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Getting a product key is free  Here is how I did it   I just downloaded the 2012 Express install ISO image  After install I got the message  This product will expire in 30 day s   Registration is required for the continued use of Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web    On that same screen is a register online link  Clicking that I signed in with my live account  updated my profile  and got a registration key

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I believe that if you download the offline ISO image file  and use that to install Visual Studio Express  you won t have to register   Go here and find the link that says  All - Offline Install ISO image file   Click on it to expand it  select your language  and then click  Download    Otherwise  it s possible that online registration is simply down for a while  as the error message indicates  You have 30 days before it expires  so give it a few days before starting to panic

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I have an improvement on the answer  DewiMorgan gave for VS 2008 express  I have since confirmed it also works on VS 2005 express  It lets you run the software without it EVER requiring registration  and also makes it so you don t have to manually delete the key every 30 days  It does this by preventing the key from ever being written    Deleting the correct key can also let you avoid registering VS 2015  Community Edition   but using permissions to prevent the key being written will make the IDE crash  so I haven t found a great solution for it yet    The directions assume Visual C  Express 2008  but this works on all the other visual studio express apps I can find    Open regedit  head to HKEY CURRENT USER Software Microsoft VCSExpress 9 0 Registration  Delete the value Params   Right click on the key  Registration  in the tree  and click permissions  Click Advanced    Go to the permissions tab  and uncheck the box labeled Inherit from parent the permission entries that apply to child objects  Include these with entries explicitly defined here   In the dialog that opens  click copy   Note that in Windows 7  and 8 8 1  I think   it appears the copy button was renamed to add  as in add inherited permissions as explicit permissions  In Windows 10  it appears things changed again   ravuya says that you might have to manually re-create some of the permissions  as the registry editor no longer offers this exact functionality directly  I don t use Windows very much anymore  so I ll defer to them      On Win10  there is a button called  Disable Inheritance  that does the same thing as the checkbox mentioned in step 5  It is necessary to create new permissions just for Registration  instead of inheriting those permissions from an upstream registry key   Hit OK in the  Advanced  window  Back in the first permissions window  click your user  and uncheck Full Control   Do the same thing for the Administrators group   Hit OK or Apply  Congratulations  you will never again be plagued by the registration nag  and just like WinRAR  your trial will never expire    You may have to do the same thing for other  non-Visual C   programs  like Visual Basic express or Visual C   express   It has been reported by  IronManMark20 in the comments that simply deleting the registry key works and that Visual Studio does not attempt to re-create the key  I am not sure if I believe this because when I installed VS on a clean windows installation  the key was not created until I ran VS at least once  But for what it s worth  that may be an option as well

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