If anyone is having visual studio shell 2010 invalid license data. reinstall is required

I found a fix since the other fix was not working...
This problem is caused by installing Microsoft SQL Server.
Here is how to fix it:

Use regedit go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT and look for Visual Studio.DTE
Since i have Visual Studio 2015 CTP installed i have 3 DTE, one is VisualStudio.DTE, the other Visual StudioDTE.10.0 and VisualStudio.DTE.14.0
Go to VisualStudio.DTE.14.0 ( or whatever version of Visual studio you have installed) and click CLSID. Copy the Default (Double click Default and Copy the key inside), now go back to Visua Studio.DTE and double click the Default there and paste the key you just copied.
Almost there
On VisualStudio.DTE go to CurVer and double click the key there to Edit it. Change the 10.0 in the end to 12.0 or 13.0 or 14.0, depending on what version of Visual Studio you have and you are done

Congratulations, no more persky visual studio shell 2010 invalid license data. reinstall is required

Just tested and it works.

Enjoy it!!!!

 

Hi,

I just discovered your post today and I just want to thank you !

I found a lot of 'solutions' for this problem but none worked.

Yours just work perfectly and just take a few seconds, thank you again. I can finally use VS !!!

 

Excellent answer, worked for me too. I ran into this after I installed SQL server 2012 management studio - that install created the registry key issue. Versions of SQL Server Management studio prior to 2016 uses VS 2010 for it's visual editor. Unity obviously looks at this registry key in the Visual Studio initiation. I believe this issue is taken care of in SQL server 2016.