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.
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Today, when I open Visual Studio Community 2017, it says the trial period is expired and I must sign in to continue to use. I do not want to create an account although it is free. Can I continue to use it without login?
Login is required per Microsoft Docs after the trial period. VS Community is free (if you meet the license terms), but you do need to login to renew the license.
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/license-terms/mlt031819/
If you just want to use the Visual C++ compiler from the command-line, then look at the Build Tools for Visual Studio 2019 release.
I originally had Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise CTP and it's expired. I uninstalled it and installed Visual Studio 2015 RC Community. However, it still says "This license has expired" (and any attempt to sign in fails as I don't have MSDN subscription). I uninstalled Visual Studio 2015 RC Community with /force command-line switch, removed all VSCommon, VisualStudio and Visual Studio disk folders and registry entries, and also Licenses registry subbranches requested by Visual Studio during startup (accordingly sysinternal's Process Monitor), and then reinstalled Visual Studio 2015 RC Community. I also run devenv.exe /resetuserdata (normally and under Administrator) with no luck. I'm running Windows 7 x64 if this matters.
It keeps telling "This license has expired". "Check for an updated license" tries to sign me in with no luck. Signing in with my Live.com account doesn't work (again, only MSDN subscription would suffice there). How else can I make Visual Studio "forget" that I previously had Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise CTP?
Is reinstalling the OS the only solution?
Unlike possible duplicate, I focus here on exact errors which are happening.
Have you tried a simple repair? Control Panel - Programs and Features - Microsoft Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 - Change - Repair.
I had the same problem. Tried uninstall and didn't work. Before going to registry manipulations, tried this:
Close the IDE, go and create your Visual Studio Online free account.
(https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/what-is-visual-studio-online-vs - hope the link works)
Open IDE, and click "Check for updated license".
Login with that account, and hopefully this will work, as with my VS -
"License downloaded successfully".
It turned out that IE8 was the problem. Once I updated to IE11, signing to Live.com finally worked. So, the core of the problem was IE version.
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:
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.
Will we see a release of VS2013 RC on Dreamspark (Student version of MSDN)?
I wish to download vs2013RC. But not a trial one.. On microsoft's site, it has a trial download link which ends after 90 days.
Seems like it is out as of today (27 Oct). Note that while the ad mentions only the Professional edition being available on Dreamspark, you can also download the Premium. However as far as the Ultimate edition goes - which contains the new CodeLens feature - is still available only in RC. It is not yet clear whether VS Ultimate (final) will be available on Dreamspark.
Also I see that Vs2013 RTM is released on dreamspark now.