
If you don’t have an MSDN subscription, but have instead purchased a retail copy of Visual Studio 2013, there should be a Product Key with the product. Update: Here’s the relevant section which specifies the static activation key: Find and copy out the product key for your version of Visual Studio 2013 (e.g. In the list of keys there should be static activation keys for your account. Here you’ll see a tab for “ My Product Keys”. Authenticate to MSDN Subscriptions and go to the Subscriber Downloads section. You’ll need to have an MSDN Subscription which matches the version of Visual Studio you are using.

I discovered by scrolling through MSDN license keys that it is possible to unlock Visual Studio without needing to use a Microsoft account. I assume this also will apply to retail copies as well. This comes in the wake of Visual Studio no longer being pre-pidded (when a product has a license key included in the installation media) when you obtain a copy from MSDN – for MSDN subscription holders, of course. With Visual Studio Community 2013 developers get the full power Microsoft´s leading developing tool.īy the way: The system requirements of Visual Studio Community 2013 start with Windows 7 SP1 (x86 and 圆4), 1.6GHz or faster CPU, 1GB RAM and 20GB free disk space.Recently, I mentioned that the newly minted Visual Studio 2013 asks you to authenticate with a Microsoft account to tie your copy to a specific account.

Millions of developers use Visual Studio every day. In enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or > $1MM in annual revenue), no use is permitted beyond the open source, academic research, and classroom learning environment scenarios described above. For all other usage scenarios: In non-enterprise organizations, up to 5 users can use Visual Studio Community.An unlimited number of users within an organization can use Visual Studio Community for the following scenarios: in a classroom learning environment, for academic research, or for contributing to open source projects.Any individual developer can use Visual Studio Community to create their own free or paid apps.Microsoft answers this in the Q & A section of the Visual Studio Community 2013 website (copy & paste here): So, who can use this version of Visual Studio?

This version corresponds to Visual Studio Professional 2013 and includes Update 4. If you have installed VS Professional 2013 you have to uninstall it before. This version is FREE - for non commercial use!ĭetails: vs_community.exe is a small downloader. Visual Studio Community 2013 includes the full functionality of Visual Studio Professional 2013!

Since yesterday the new edition "Visual Studio Community 2013" is available for download on the Visual Studio product website Visual Studio Community 2013 - A Full-Featured IDE - FREE.
