2.5 can't activate

Posted June 24th, 2008 by ItsDan

I've been waiting for 2.5 for awhile, hoping for improved phpdoc and intellisense report. I just installed the lastest download, but now I can't activate it. I put in my old serial number, which is no longer valid. Unlike previous versions though, it does not bring me to a screen to request an updated serial number. Also, from the IDE (without it activated), the Help->Buy VS.PHP doesn't work properly, it's looking for me to activate vs.php before the menu item will work, obviously not desirable for a 'buy' link.

‹ Debugger Aborts with Fault dialog error Error activating last VS.PHP for VS 2005 ›

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    Sorry for the

    On June 24th, 2008 webmaster said:

    Sorry for the inconvenience.

    I'll contact you offline to assist you with the activation issues.

    Thanks,

    I may be having a similar

    On July 8th, 2008 dbarchowsky said:

    I may be having a similar problem. After using the evaluation version of VS.PHP 2.5 for Visual Studio 2008 I mistakenly entered my old VS.PHP serial number. I purchased a license for VS.PHP 2.5 for VS08. VS08 reports that VS.PHP is installed, but it isn't activated. "Help > Activate VS.php" does nothing... no prompt, no nothing. I tried uninstalling/reinstalling both VS08 and VS.PHP, and it is still the same. Thanks for any help.

    Do you get the trial window

    On July 8th, 2008 webmaster said:

    Do you get the trial window when you open a php project? There is a link there to activate the software.

    There is no trial window

    On July 9th, 2008 dbarchowsky said:

    There is no trial window now.

    Thanks

    What error do you get when

    On July 9th, 2008 webmaster said:

    What error do you get when you open the project?

    As an alternate, you can go

    On July 9th, 2008 webmaster said:

    As an alternate, you can go to the vs.php directory and run this from the command line:

    vsphp_svc REGISTER

    That will prompt you with a dialog to enter the serial.

    I tried this, thank you.

    On July 10th, 2008 dbarchowsky said:

    I tried this, thank you. After entering my name and serial number the response was "The key is valid and has been stored." This didn't result in any change in the Visual Studio environment however.

    As an alternate, you can go

    On July 9th, 2008 webmaster said:

    As an alternate, you can go to the vs.php directory and run this from the command line:

    vsphp_svc REGISTER

    That will prompt you with a dialog to enter the serial.

    I don't get any errors. If I

    On July 10th, 2008 dbarchowsky said:

    I don't get any errors. If I open a PHP file in Visual Studio it is as if I am editing a text document. The start up screen for Visual Studio reports that VS.php is installed, but in terms of editing a php file it's as if VS.php is not installed at all.

    Try this from the command

    On July 11th, 2008 webmaster said:

    Try this from the command line:

    devenv /resetskippkgs

    This worked. Thank you!

    On July 14th, 2008 dbarchowsky said:

    This worked. Thank you!

    I have the same problem.

    On July 26th, 2008 acemuzzy said:

    I have the same problem. Where does the devenv file reside? I can't find it to run the bottom cmd line suggestion.

    As above, I initially couldn't supply the snl number at all, eventually could via teh first command lne entry, but still have my php files treated as plain text when i enter vs2008.

    Murray

    OK, skip that - found under

    On July 26th, 2008 acemuzzy said:

    OK, skip that - found under vs 9.0.

    Thanks.