Note: you don’t have to be online for the process to complete, so it looks like a good option for offline installs.

Once the registration dialog appears, use the “License with a Product Key” option, and enter your Product Key with the popup window. Once the IDE loads, you can select “Register Product” from the Help menu: You can skip logging in with a Microsoft account by choosing “Not now.”.

You’ll be taken through the usual “first time user” wizard, which establishes your development and UI preferences. Once the installation completes, you’ll be able to launch the Visual Studio 2015 IDE. Probably best you avoid installing VS 2015 o a netbook! If you want to minimise the install vector, unselecting the Cross Platform Mobile Development saves a lot of space. There’s some different options in this new edition (when using a custom install), the options I selected to install will absorb over 24 GB of hard drive space. I’ve chosen to evaluate Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise edition, which replaces Premium and Ultimate editions (they have been merged into a single SKU). Once you have acquired a Product Key, the next step is to install Visual Studio 2015. A boxed product should have a Product Key on the media (or box) and a soft copy should have a key associated with it somehow (maybe it is mailed to you?). If you don’t have an MSDN subscription, but have instead purchased a retail copy of Visual Studio 2015 when it becomes available, there should be a Product Key with the product.Whether or not Visual Studio carries a Product Key/perpetual license seems to depend on the type of MSDN subscription. If you don’t have a Product Key listed, as with Visual Studio 2013 it’s likely tied to the type of MSDN Subscription you have – whether you have assigned a perpetual license of not.Enterprise, Professional, Test Professional). Find and copy out the product key for your version of Visual Studio 2015 (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. This edition follows the trend established in the previous edition of providing two channels of licensing – by using a Microsoft Account or by supplying a product key. Continuing from the experience with Visual Studio 2013, the next edition – Visual Studio 2015 – was officially released to MSDN subscribers early this morning.

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