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.
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.
I just installed the visual studio update 2 on two computers and now when I try to debug my program, the visual studio closes!!
It doesn't show any exception, just closes.
What should I do? I tried to reinstall the visual studio and install again but I got the same problem.
According to Marc Paine (Visual Studio Debugger QA Lead):
You are using the Visual Web Devleoper version of VS, correct? If so, we have a known bug in this CTP only affecting VWD. You can copy symsvr.dll from any other install of VS (other express versions or pro) into the common7\ide directory for VWD. That should fix the problem. We have fixed this problem already and it should be avialable in the next CTP.
Unfortunately it doesn't worked for me... so I tell it in the support forum but Microsoft just marked my feedback as closed and didn't answer me anymore...
So unfortunately my solution was formatting my computer.
It's a CTP right now, which isn't really supposed to be stable; on the contrary - it has experimental features. So it shouldn't really surprise you that it crashes. Gather as much data as possible and send it to Microsoft; hopefully they'll fix it.
I just downloaded the Webmatrix 2 Prerelease Beta-
http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/install.aspx?appid=webmatrix&prerelease=true
I played around and made a database with some tables. Then I went to open up Visual Studio 2010 and I was prompted to install some missing components. That all went well except when the plaform installer tried to install ASP Razor 2 Syntax for Visual Studio. I get the following error-
"The product you are trying to install is not supported on your operating system. Click here for more information."
I click, nothing useful comes up. Has anyone seen this and know a solution? Or am I just a little too early and have to wait?
Thanks for your time.
This sounds like a bug in pre-release software. Could you report it here?
https://connect.microsoft.com/webmatrix/Feedback
Is there an Issue Tracker plugin for Visual Studio 2010 to link tasks/bugs to specific issues existing in redmine project?
Unfortunately it doesn't look like there is a Visual Studio plugin for Redmine at present, although I did find a couple of posts on the Redmine forums:
any interest in a visual studio plugin to view redmine issues?
i've started working on one for myself. is anyone interested and, if you are, do you have any feature suggestions?
Later:
i've actually already started work on something and gotten a decent amount done. I'll post it for download soon maybe! Any feature suggestions?
However, the last post was seven months ago, and there are no further posts from that user.
I've created an extension to display Redmine issues as tasks in Visual Studio Task List. Source code and the latest VSIX can be found at http://redminetasklist.codeplex.com