Hi everyone this is my first post. I am having a major problem with visual studio I cannot log in to extend my 30 day trial period and have no access to using visual studio. So here is what is happening exactly I have been using visual studio 2017 community version for 30 days as a trial, they want me to log in to extend the use of visual studio but I get an error for almost everything. I will show some screenshots as to what specific errors.
Specific error with vs
So those are my errors and like anyone else here would do I have tried multiple ways to fix this myself. Here is what I have done.
I have gone into .Identityservice and cleared the cache that was there(there are multiple different forums and such detailing which cache to delete I only had one in the appdata/local/.identityservice which was IdentityServiceAdalCache.cache)
I have tried to go around going into the visual studio installer then to report a problem to sign into the developer community, it will let me sign in however as soon as I am done signing it is says that I have logged out and need to refresh my credentials which is why I cannot post on the developer community directly as well.
three clean reinstalls
repair option in installer
tried to see if updating would help
One more thing is that since visual studio provides error logs I have one here(or most of it anyway)
error log
I would really appreciate any help I can get, I have scoured the internet looking for answers but haven't been able to find much. Hopefully I have provided enough information. Thank you.
So, after using the new quote "Free" version of Visual Studio 2013 -- ie Visual Studio Community 2013 -- for a time, I have gotten the message that my "30 day trial" has expired...
License: 30 day trial (for evaluation purposes only)
This license has expired.
! Your trial has expired. Sign in to acquire a license using an online account
Ok...so I tried to click the "Sign On" option I was given. The result? I get this message in the window that comes up:
Sorry, we ran into a problem
SP324099: Could not complete the operation
This also happens when I try the Check for an updated license option.
According to the answers I saw
here
and
here
the fix was to update Internet Explorer to version 11. The only problem? I have IE11 already. I can't really find any way to fix this for Visual Studio Community 2013, and I'm not sure what to do with this. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you!
EDIT: I am not sure if this is relevant information but I will include it in the event that it is. When the error comes up, I get an IE browser window that pops up as well. This IE browser takes me to a site with an invalid/expired certificate (that appears to still be MSDN...I hope). I continue and log in to MSDN, but it just gives me this dictionary with {"securityToken": ["..."]}
Is the certificate problem related to this somehow? Does this information provide a clue as to what the answer is? Thanks.
After you have attempted to refresh the "free" license, if this popup window with the error message appears, just simply click on the X in the upper right-hand corner of the window to close the popup. (Instead of attempting to sign in again.)
I have downloaded the Visual Studio Community 2015 (free version) and I don't see when the expiration date is.
I have tried to see the expiration date at Help Menu -> About Microsoft Visual Studio and there is no expiration date there.
Is there any expiration date (I have a Microsoft account)? If yes, Where can I see it? Or until when is it?
There is and there isn't an expiration date. If you register Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition by successfully signing into Visual Studio then the product is fully unlocked with no set expiry date. If you don't sign in (or haven't entered a purchased licence key), you only have 30 day evaluation license.
You can check whether your copy of Visual Studio has is registered or not by selecting Help -> About Microsoft Studio and clicking on the "License Status" link in the upper right of the About dialog. If your product isn't registered you'll see something like this:
Visual Studio Community 2015 is free. But I got the 30 day trial expired message. After some googling figured out that I have to sign in with a Microsoft account. So I signed up with my Hotmail account and after that I was able to continue using the VS community 2015.
Here is a simple approach to sneak by that stupid blocker screen in Visual Studio after 30-days expires using Process Hacker:
Details at: https://stackoverflow.com/a/34243422/3135511
It's more of a quick 'n dirty fix than a real solution. However, it may be quicker than doing all that official login/sign up, subscribe, whatever crap Microsoft wants you to do, in order to use Visual Studio Community Version for free.
I am running VSCommunity 2015 in Win8.1 virtual machine installed inside a Parallels 11 virtual machine installed on my Mac OSX El Capitan. To my surprise and delight it installed and ran fine. I used it for 2 weeks without signing into my Microsoft account. I tried to login 6 weeks later and got the 30 day trial screen shown above.
However for me I was able to simply click on the link above shown as "Check for an updated license" and was prompted in to log in to my Microsoft account. I did so and it granted me a license successfully and was seamless. Now under License Status it displays as "This product is licensed to: ".
I guess I got lucky as I'm guessing this is how it is supposed to work.
[sidebar]:
Over the decades I've disliked most MS products but have been out of the VS IDE development tools game for awhile, and I have to say using VSComm15 has been flawless. Using it to learn C# and the IDE itself for a new contract job and it worked perfectly and has great features.
You can use "RunasDate" to solve this.
There isn't an expiration date for the community edition.
The usage section from the from the Visual Studio website clearly states:
For individuals
Any individual developer can use Visual Studio Community to create
their own free or paid apps.
For organizations
An unlimited number of users within an organization can use Visual
Studio Community for the following scenarios: in a classroom learning
environment, for academic research, or for contributing to open source
projects.
For all other usage scenarios: In non-enterprise organizations, up to
five users can use Visual Studio Community. In enterprise
organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or >$1 Million US Dollars
in annual revenue), no use is permitted beyond the open source,
academic research, and classroom learning environment scenarios
described above.
In case you had enabled 2-Step verification for your Microsoft account disable it when updating the VS License using the 'Check for Updated License' option provided in the window.
I also get same issue after I repair vs2015, even I click check license online, still fail.
Correct action is:
1. Sign out
2. Check License Status, then it will pop-up login window, after login then it able to successfully get the license info.
In my case, even after sign up to Visual Studio account, I cant sign in and the license still expired.
Solution from across the internet:
Download iso version of the installer.
Then run installer, select repair. That would solve the problem for most case.
In my case, I got an iso version of ms Visual Studio 2013. Installed it and I can successfully sign in and its forever free.
Here is an instructions for the problem:
You can evaluate Visual Studio for free up to 30 days.
To Unlock Visual Studio using an online subscription
Link Microsoft account to Visual Studio 2015
I have encountered this problem:
Possible solution can be found at the link above.
This message indicates that while your subscription may still be valid, the license token Visual Studio uses to keep your subscription up to date hasn’t been refreshed and has gone stale due to one of the following reasons:
You have not used Visual Studio or have had no internet connection for an extend period of time.
You signed out of Visual Studio.
When I try to start my visual basic to open a project it doesnt seem to be working and keep prompting a error 'VB6EXT.OLB' could not be register. What does that mean? Need helps on this matter, thanks
Just Right Click on VB6.exe and CLick On Run As Administrator..
Hope It works
VBE6EXT.OLB is the Visual Basic for Applications Extensibility Library. That filename seems to indicate that you're dealing with version 5.3, which apparently shipped with Microsoft Office 2000. It would seem your VB6 project is an Office Automation project then?
Google turns up the following links, which may be helpful:
BUG: Interface methods in the VBA Extensibility Library (VBE) are changed
PRB: Visual Studio Setup program may include Office OLB files in setup list
Neither seems to directly answer your question, but they seem like a good place to start.
Since Visual Basic 6 (and Microsoft Office 2000 as well) hit end-of-life well before Windows Vista was released, there may be a fundamental conflict between them. You might be better off trying to develop your application on an older version of Windows.
This just happened to me (literally seconds ago) and I came HERE first stop.
I was looking for THE answer. As it happened, MS-Office 2010 offered to repair the problem...
... and, skeptically, I accepted.
To my astonishment I was soon greeted by my FAVOURITE splash screen in the world - I've got my Rubberduck
Anyway, I'm relieved the Auto Fix worked...
How would you get a quick report about the number of files/classes/lines of code in a solution or project?
any one know of any free addons or hidden menus i dont seem to have found yet ?
Edit: It would also be cool if it could give a run down of amount of whitespace/comments compared to actual code.
Microsoft's code metrics require the Team Suite edition. You might want to try NDepend, they have both open source/academic/trial (free) and professional ($$) editions.
There isn't anything like that in the Professional version. You would have to bump up to the Developer or Team Suite version to get Code Metrics, which would get you what you want from the integrated tools
Beyond that, I think you have to go third party.
And my two cents worth is that you have to take metrics like that with a grain of salt anyway.