I installed the Visual Studio 217.
I downloaded and installed the LeanFT after making the credentials at their respective website. On website, it is displaying the remaining days as 60.
I launched the Visual Studio and started working on LeanFT.
I finished the POc and shutdown everything.
Next day, when i relaunched visual studio. it starts giving me the message "The LeanFT Runtime engine requires a valid functional testing licence". and all menu items for LeanFt got disabled. when i executed the code, it is also giving the same error.
If Visual Studio 2013 was activated using a static activation key obtained through BizSpark in 2014, will it still work after graduation date in 2017?
Never signed in to VS. Product Information says "License Product key applied".
I remember seeing an email from Microsoft somewhere in 2015 that said something like:
"If you have saved your product key before [some_date_in_2015] you will be able to continue using Visual Studio 2013 after you graduate."
Does that still apply?
The answer is simply - YES.
Confirmed first hand. It still works like it worked since the day one.
The important thing is that Visual Studio 2013 was activated using a static activation key obtained through BizSpark and activated before Microsoft changed the activation policy to login-only (around mid 2015).
There is a slight possibility that it is still possible to install VS V2013 using the old ISO installation image and activate it using a static key.
I'm using Visual Studio 2015 in the community version.
Today I saw that since some days there is an update to Version "Update 1". I was wondering, that my windows or visual stuido did not tell me that there is a update available.
Is this normal in VS, do I always have to keep it up to date by downloading the newest installer?
The reason you didn't see it is that VS has two actions. The first is that we publish a VSUpdate for people to find and download directly. After a period of time, then we publish an atom feed file that VS will download and use to notify you. What you were seeing is that we made VSU1 available on Nov 30th, but we didn't publish the atom feed file until Dec 14th. (And even then, VS only fetches the updated atom feed file once every 24 hours, so it could have been Dec 15th when your VS would have gotten the file that caused the notification).
Keeping up-to-date manually by keeping an eye on tech blogs is faster than waiting for Visual Studio to inform you.
You can find the update on MSDN and download it there, or use the link in this Microsoft Blog post on the release of VS2015 Update 1 to download it.
Update:
This morning my Visual Studio Professional 2015 suddenly drew a yellow box around the Notification Center icon, and upon clicking it told me that '"Visual Studio 2015 Update 1" is available'.
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.
Visual Studio 2010 expires after a certain time. Is that a fixed date or is that determined at the time of install ? i.e. is it a fixed number of days ?
Please refer to this Stackoverflow post:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/960954/when-is-the-expiration-date-of-visual-studio-2010-beta
Which refers to this MSDN post:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/setupprerelease/thread/b833dbcb-63f6-41af-8887-4b6b3d90010c/
"3. TIME-SENSITIVE SOFTWARE. The software will stop running 240 days after you install it or on April 15, 2010, whichever comes first. You will not receive any other notice. You may not be able to access data used with the software when it stops running."
I used "Help" -> "About" on my machine to see how many days are left.