Question about WPA and Visual Studio .NET...

[CZroe]

Do Visual Studio .NET products require Windows Product Activation (WPA)?
Does it require reactivation when you change too much hardware, or is this only for the operating system (WinXP)?

 

[Gaunt]

Yes, it requires activation, similar to Office XP I would imagine. I doubt you need to re-activate when you install new hardware, as is the case with windows XP, but that's just a guess.

I recently bought VS .NET, but I haven't installed it yet because I've been finishing a project in VS 6 and didn't want to risk problems... One interesting thing I did see in the license agreement, is that you can install VS.NET on up to 3 machines, for testing and development, as long as you are going to be the sole user of those machines. I'm not sure how this works with the activation stuff... has anyone tried this?

 

[bsobel]

It requires a license key like most MS apps, there was no activation however.
Bill

 

[RSMemphis]

I can only talk about the academic version, but there the license "follows you", which means you can reinstall it on a different computer if you get rid of it on the first one.
Thus, there was a product activation of some sort, but not as computer specific. But you still have to submit your name.

 

[Gaunt]

The version I was reffering to was the academic version as well...

My roommate had installed his copy and mentioned that there was activation required, and from his description, I assumed it was the same type of over the internet activation as windows xp does... but I could be wrong.