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I have been using the Community edition of Visual studio 2017 but now my office has purchased a Visual Studio 2017 Pro License key.
Is there a way in which I can upgrade using just the license key..?? without re-installing the software..?
I have tried following the steps in this Link
But I cant find the
License with a Product Key link. NOTE: I have already signed in with my Microsoft account.
I have read this link
But it looks like the guy has already installed 2017 enterprise edition and then changed his license key.
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In the Visual Studio Installer, look for the installation of Visual Studio that you want to update. For example, if you previously installed Visual Studio Community 2022 and there's an update for it, then an Update available message appears in the Visual Studio Installer. Choose Update to install the update.
Starting from Visual Studio 2017, Community, professional and Enterprise editions can install side by side. The installation will not attempt to uninstall older versions and we don't need to uninstall older version of VS 2015/2017, before installing the VS2019.
We cannot upgrade VS 2017 from community to the Professional version, but we can keep those VS versions (community/professional/enterprise) on the same computer which is different with the previous VS versions, so you can download and install the VS professional 2017 without uninstall the existing VS community 2017.
BTW, the VS community 2017 is free and we can unlock it through sign in with the Microsoft account, but there have the license terms to check we have the freely use right or not, please check this and if not meet those requirements, please uninstall it.
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