Friday, March 6, 2009

VSTS 2010 CTP Expired?!

Is your Visual Studio 2010 CTP expired? Here's how you can reactivate it.

First, download the bits again. You can use your original .exe and .rar's if you kept them. Extract them to the desired location, BUT DO NOTHING ELSE. Just extract the files.

Second, open the .vmc file in Notepad (or other text / XML editor) in order to view the XML. Find (CTRL-F) the XML element named "</mouse>". Immediately after the mouse element end tag, insert the bolded XML you see below.

<integration>
   <microsoft>
   <mouse>
      <allow type="boolean">true</allow>
   </mouse>
   <components>
      <host_time_sync>
         <enabled type="boolean">false</enabled>
      </host_time_sync>
   </components>

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