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VS2017 Community edition change registration account

As per this type of question VS2017 Community Edition has to be registered within 30 days, otherwise it will refuse to work after that time.

My 30 days are up, but the system that I am working on does not belong to me, it belongs to a client of mine. Ideally this copy of VS2017 should be registered to an account belonging to my client, (and even more security conscious I should not know the account details)

So if I register VS2017 with my account credentials, can I later on change the VS2017 registration to my client's account?

Note that I am not changing the type of license, just the entity the software is registered to.

Edit: Changed wording to clarify what I am wanting to do, based on @MSalters comment

Solution

  • Legally you can't transfer your license, but an existing Visual Studio installation can be re-registered. See Help>Register Product.