Licence key for VS Studio 2003 Academic

TheCityManager

I got VS 2003 academia a few years back and stuck on an old laptop just to 'mess about with'..laptop has since died and I have discarded product licence key..
Where can I get a new product key?

I know VS 2003 is old hat and I know all about VS Express, I simply want to be able to run this again..

Any ideas?

NeverSayDie

You're probably out of luck, but you could give Microsoft a shout and ask them what the story is. This page has contact info;
http://www.microsoft.com/ireland/licensing/homeusers/default.mspx

TheCityManager

NeverSayDie wrote: »

You're probably out of luck, but you could give Microsoft a shout and ask them what the story is. This page has contact info;
http://www.microsoft.com/ireland/licensing/homeusers/default.mspx

Tried that .. no reply...any other options?

Evil Phil

You could try talking to an authorised educational reseller: https://aer.microsoft.com/aer/searchaer.aspx about getting a new licence - however you may have to pay.

AFAIK the licence for a current version of VS can be applied to previous versions as long as only one instance is installed under the licence. I don't know of this applies to product keys however.

TheCityManager

Evil Phil wrote: »

You could try talking to an authorised educational reseller: https://aer.microsoft.com/aer/searchaer.aspx about getting a new licence - however you may have to pay.

AFAIK the licence for a current version of VS can be applied to previous versions as long as only one instance is installed under the licence. I don't know of this applies to product keys however.

Thansk for that...

Have decided to buy VS 2005 academic (only €100) I'm just going to use it for toying about with smart device development - VS Express 2010 doesn't support this ...

Thanks for all assistance !

techguy

Are you a student doing something IT related?

If so then you might have some luck with DreamSpark.. www.dreamspark.com