visual studio .net setup: I purchased the Visual Studio .NET 2003 evaluation product and installed and
activated it on an XP Pro SP2 machine that was fairly crufty from many
install/ uninstall cycles of various applications, services, development
tools, etc.. My goal was to try out C# and ASP.NET for web development.
Given the state of the box, I ran into multiple problems: IIS, web server
debugging, etc..

After much frustration, I decided to rebuild the crufty box, and install the
VS on another machine with a relatively clean install of XP Pro SP2. When I
try to activate VS over the Internet, it gives me a dialog to the effect
"this product has already been activated and can't be activated again". The
option to telephone for activation is disabled.

Any suggestions?

TIA,

David

The solution is to re-install it on the same computer. It will then activate.

David