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. 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.
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