![]() ![]() That question being, in case we've forgotten, "how can I please get your software to recognize the licenses that I purchased instead of threatening me that it will go dark in 90 days?" It's basically always been a mess and still is a mess and our suspicion is that Microsoft deliberately makes it hard to redeem your licenses so that you'll either (A) just purchase more licenses via a channel that actually delivers them or (B) call their for-fee hotline and spend a bunch of money waiting on hold before you get forwarded from one person to another until finally ending up with someone who can answer your question. The downloads page includes Windows operating systems and server software of all kinds as well as productivity software like Office and Visio but mentions nothing about Visual Studio.If you don't use IE, you'll always wonder whether the site failed to work because it's so buggy or because your browser is not properly supported. Some pages work in any browser whereas others highly recommend using Internet Explorer, some even recommending version 11.You have to log in with your official LiveID but some pages mysteriously don't use the common login whereas others do use it and still others just log you out entirely, forcing you to log in again.I pluralized the components above because it's hard to tell how many different teams, applications and technologies are actually behind the site. Every year, Microsoft improves something on the site, generally to the style but not the usability. I mention the effort only because the partner site(s) and page(s) and application(s) are so notoriously hard to navigate. In previous versions, we were able to go to the partner web site and, after a lot of effort, get license keys for our 10 licenses and distribute them among our developers. This includes 10 licenses for all premium versions of Visual Studio, up to and including the latest and greatest. We've had this membership for a while in order to get partner benefits, which basically translates to having licenses for Microsoft software at our disposal in order to develop and test. MCSE) but we don't have any of those (yet). You can also use Microsoft competencies (e.g. This involves no small amount of work and means that the competency isn't that easy to get. NET products developed by Encodo (Punchclock and Quino in our case) ![]() We maintain this competency through a combination of the following: Silver PartnershipĮncodo is a member of the Microsoft Partner Program with a Silver Competency. ![]() If you're only interesting in what we promised to show you in the title of the article, then you can jump to the tl dr at the end. ![]()
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