For Visual Studio 2005. If you do have an installed Visual Studio 2005 however, and want to find out the serial number you’ve used to install it because you don’t have a clue where you put that shiny sticker, you can. It is, like most things in Windows, in the registry. In order to convert the value in that key to an actual serial number you have to put a dash ( – ) after evert 5 characters of the code. For Visual Studio 2008 it's supposed to be. However I noted that the the Data field for PIDKEY is only filled in the 1000.0x000 (or 2000.0x000) sub folder of the above paths.
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