I was looking at what version of VS 2013 to upgrade to, and discovered that my company qualified as sufficiently small enough to use the VS 2013 Community Edition. So on 19th March, I downloaded it, and took it for a test-drive, building a small app.
But tonight just when I really need to rebuild that app, it tells me my 30-day trial has expired. What 30-day trial? Where was that mentioned?
Any suggestions as to how to get around this? I have a demo to do within a matter of hours, and I'm beginning to panic...
The wording is a bit bad, but once you sign in with a Microsoft Account you get a temporary license assigned that Visual Studio will try to refresh in the background. If the refresh fails for some reason, you will get this message and will need to click the "Check for an updated license" button on the Visual Studio Account screen.
This screenshot is from the Visual Studio 2015 RC, but the way the licensing works is the same:
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After updating visual studio 2019 to version 16.2.2 when I wanted to create a new team project on my collection, it missed this menu item.
Everything works ok and I can create it from web portal but There is no menu item,its just a menu to manage connection, whats wrong?Is it a bug or what happened to it?
It must be something like this photo:
There is no menu to create “new team project” on visual studio 2019
Yes, I could reproduced this issue with Visual Studio 2019 Community 16.2.0 and TFS 2015, 2017, and 2018.
If you connect to a TFS Server 2019 environment, the option will return:
Then I searched a lot of documents, but I haven't found any explanation for this situation so far. So, I could not sure if this is by designed or it is a issue.
I found someone has already reported this issue to the development team, so I gave a comment with more test info.
Ticket: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/690875/cannot-create-a-new-team-project-from-within-the-t.html
You could vote and add your comments for this feedback track this issue. When there are enough communities vote and add comments for this feedback, the product team member will take this feedback seriously.
I did a workaroud:
Install minimal VS 2017 Community and create team project from there, then go back to VS 2019 Community.
(VS 2019 Version 16.4.2, after several months the issue is still not fixed)
I found a solution. I installed VS2015 with minimal features and I created the project in that environment. Then I continued the other steps in VS2019.
I had a trial of Visual Studio 2010 running, but now I've run out of days. When I try to extend the trial it sends me to the Ultimate version for the key extension. I signed up there and everything and got a code, but when I insert it in Visual Studio 2010 it says the code is invalid.
How do I succesfully get a Professional trial key extension?
P.S. The site is also in Japanese for me, which makes it even more difficult.
You can get the correct key by doing the following:
Go to Control Panel -> (Un)Install software;
Browse to your Visual Studio 2010 install and click Remove/Change;
The Visual Studio Maintenance Mode Wizard will load, wait a little and click next when it's done;
On the bottom left of the window you will see a the "Extend Trial" option. When you click this link it will guide you to the correct website. Which is currently: go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=133426
Sign up with your Microsoft account and apply for the trial extension;
Wait for the mail Microsoft sent you and use the provided key the extend your trial. (This code should work!)
I have installed VisualStudio 2013 Community, as per Microsoft documentation VisualStudio 2013 Community is free and will not require any license.
But today I saw a notification on VisualStudio 2013 community IDE prompting me to update the trial license. Is this a bug?
Have you signed in to Community?
Mean in your editor aswell on the homepage if necessary.
That should update the license and fix that. If you need to sign out after that you can. The license should be good for one year before you need to sign in again.
Otherwise it's a problem that you should address to the Microsoft VS Support not the SO Community
Actually there is a dirty work around without signing-in , I used a free tool called RunAsDate from this link http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/run_as_date.html and set the date in the tool to the installation date. So the license never expires .
I had to install VStudio 2013 Community yesterday 2017 / 07 / 11 (170711), and I ran into the exact same issue.
Some context (I doubt that it makes any difference, but still):
I have 7 other VStudio versions (paid / unpaid) installed
Previously, I had a VStudio 2013 paid edition (I don't remember whether it was Enterprise or Professional) whose trial expired (after 1 month; I didn't bother to extend it for 2 additional months), so I have uninstalled it
I've Googled and found smth similar on [Unity.Forum]: Visual Studio Community 2015 - License has expired ?! (with a nice pic and stuff), which pointed out to: [MS.DevBlogs]: Visual Studio 2015 FAQ - Community Edition is telling me my trial has expired. Do I have to pay for Community edition?:
No, Community edition is free to use. We use the same infrastructure that allows you to unlock VS w/ an online subscription to manage the requirement of signing into Community edition so some of our strings overlap cross these scenarios. Trial here means the period you can use the community edition before you must sign in to fully unlock the IDE.
So, after signing in (it's a simple email address/password sign in to MS), the IDE was unlocked. Staying signed in is not mandatory, I signed out, and the IDE still works.
Update
Today (180821), my VStudio license expired again for all 3 Community editions that I have installed.
Below, it's the VStudio 2015 locked version:
After signing in ([MS.Docs]: Sign in to Visual Studio), and optionally clicking "Check for an updated license", everything went back to normal. Posting some examples:
VStudio 2017:
Again, no need to stay signed in after performing the license upgrade.
VStudio 2019:
VStudio 2022 (not yet necessary):
I had the same issue. I signed out of visual studio, and restarted my PC. That solved the issue.
Hope this helps
I faced the same problem today with Visual Studio Community 2019. The warning disappeared after logout and login again from my Visual Studio account and restart it.
I installed Visual Studio 2013 Express for Web 30 days ago. I did not have access to this machine in the last two weeks and now the trail has expired. If i understand correctly you just need to sign in to your Visual Studio account from the application to extend this license. But the only thing i have access to is the screen Visual Studio shows me when starting the application.
This screen says:
License: 30 day trial (for evaluation purposes only)
This license has expired.
You are not able to update your license in this application.
I am behind a proxy but changed the VWDExpress config file as suggested as answer to other questions regarding extending the license behind a proxy. I have tried repairing Visual Studio and tried reinstalling it. Both did not change anything. I am wondering if anyone could help me what to try next.
A long while ago Scott Hanselman talked about PerfWatson. I've finally decided to install this extension in Visual Studio, but the extension no longer appears to be available for public-consumption (perform either a search or click on the appropriate link on the PerfWatson Monitor extension).
Is there an alternative to PerfWatson, or has it been completely phased out?
The PerfWatson extension is now available, and was updated on May 24th. The first paragraph says:
The Visual Studio team no longer collects PerfWatson reports for Visual Studio 2010. Your reports helped us to identify the issues affecting you most, and you can see improvements in Visual Studio 11 Beta. The PerfWatson extension is included in the VS11 Beta release. If you would like to use PerfWatson to automatically report on any responsiveness issues you are encountering, please download and try out the VS11 Beta.
Looks like it's no longer valuable.
Update July 2017
It appears that PerfWatson is available as a Visual Studio Extension for 2012, 2013, 2015, and 2017.
Paul Harrington appears to be a software engineer at Microsoft, but no idea if the extension's purpose remains the same.