Is Visual Studio Community a 30 day trial

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I installed the supposedly free VS Community 2017 on my PC and 30 days later I get this message from VS saying that my license has expired   License  Expired  I thought the community edition was  free forever  therefore sporting the  community  tag  What s going on  I tried signing in with my outlook com account but it says  something went wrong  and comes back to the same screen   How do I get a fully free version of VS 2017 so I can work on my FOSS projects

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Another answer  when you have a machine where you do not have an internet connection and cannot log in  is here - https   dimitri janczak net 2019 07 13 trial-period-reset-of-visual-studio-community-edition   The files are on github - https   github com 1Dimitri VSCELicense releases tag 1 0  From the readme file  Original Module Usage  Download clone this repository  Run PowerShell exe as an Administrator  Import module  Import-Module -Name X  PATH TO VSCELicense     Usage   Get Visual Studio Community Edition license expiration date Get-VSCELicenseExpirationDate -Version VS2019  Set license expiration date to current date   10 days Set-VSCELicenseExpirationDate -Version VS2019 -AddDays 10

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VS 17 Community Edition is free  You just need to sign-in with your Microsoft account and everything will be fine again

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Sign in and the 30 day trial will go away       And if you re already signed in  sign out then sign in again        b1nary atr0phy

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A  Sign in if you are not signed in already     B  If signed in already  click the link Check for an updated license on the account settings page     C   We could not download a license  Please ensure your accounts are authenticated   If this message is encountered  sign out and sign back in  You can either sign out by clicking on the Sign out link and then signing back in by clicking on the account icon in the upper right corner of Visual Studio  Or you can just click the link Reenter your credentials  This link is a good indication that your account is not synced up with Microsoft servers and the error message is right in that your account is not authenticated and the license cannot be refreshed        Once you have signed back in and your account is successfully authenticated  you will see that the  Reenter your credentials  link is gone  This is a good indicator that you can now go ahead and refresh the license  If it does not do that automatically you can click the Check for an updated license link once again  This time you will see a short confirmation message and your associated email address will be listed       Signing in is inevitable if you want to get rid of this annoying warning  But even if you have always been signed from day one  you may still run into this warning  Based on my experience  this may happen if you have recently changed the password for your account  or you have added 2FA  two step verification  to your account  or you have reset the recovery code for the account and with it the app passwords  It may also have to do with inactivity or the recent changes Microsoft has been making to the  sign in experience  for Microsoft accounts   Whatever the reason may be  signing in  or signing out and then signing back in again appears to be the best treatment for this annoyance

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In my case  I already was signed in  So I had to sign out and sign in again   In spanish Cerrar Sesion is sign out

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I had this problem  Signing in or pressing the  Check for an updated license  link did not work for me  My solution was to restart Visual Studio  try again  sign in and check for license   Restart Visual Studio  try again  I had to do this several times and then it worked   I also tried pressing the  File  menu that is available for a short period of time before the annoying request window appears again   Maybe you just don t get connected to the server or the server itself doesn t update its database fast enough

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IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER  Information provided below is for educational purposes only  Extending a trial period of Visual Studio Community 2017 might be ILLEGAL   You have the same effect when You remove all files from HKEY CLASSES ROOT Licenses 5C505A59-E312-4B89-9508-E162F8150517  Run  Visual Studio Installer  and chose option  repair   Now You have new 30 days of trial  But You lost all configuration in Your VS

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In my case it was most trivial solution - I just needed to run Vistual Studio as Administrator    It s trivial thing  but i didn t see this mentioned anywhere

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For VS2019 I was able to signup with my github account        Then it will send password to your email and you will be able to sign

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For my case the problem was in fact that i broke machine config and looks like VS couldn t have a connection I ve added the following lines to my machine config   lt  --  lt system net gt    lt defaultProxy gt     lt proxy autoDetect  false  bypassonlocal  false  proxyaddress  http   127 0 0 1 8888  usesystemdefault  false    gt    lt  defaultProxy gt   lt  system net gt   lt  -- -- gt    After replacing the previous section to    lt  --  lt system net gt    lt defaultProxy gt     lt proxy autoDetect  false  bypassonlocal  false  proxyaddress  http   127 0 0 1 8888  usesystemdefault  false    gt    lt  defaultProxy gt   lt  system net gt  -- gt    VS started to work

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I m using Visual Studio Professional licensed over the MAPS Action Pack subscription  Since the new version of the Microsoft Partner Center one have to add the subscribed user to the partner benefit software   Partner Center- Benefits- Visual Studio Subscriptions- Add user  After that one have to sign out and reenter the credentials in the account settings of VS

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No  Community edition is free  so just sign-in and rid the warning  For more detail please check following link  https   visualstudio microsoft com vs support community-edition-expired-buy-license

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To bypass  30days left must go online to sign-in   sign-in once to Microsoft account  you ll get  LocalAppData  Microsoft VSCommon OnlineLicensing folder that you can copy to offline PCs

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IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER  Information provided below is for educational purposes only  Extending a trial period of Visual Studio Community 2017 might be ILLEGAL   So let s get started   Registry key of interest  HKEY CLASSES ROOT Licenses 5C505A59-E312-4B89-9508-E162F8150517 08878  I assume the 08878 subkey may differ from installation to installation  why not  isn t    I have tested only on my own one  So check other subkeys if you can not match proper values described below  Binary value stored in that key is encrypted with CryptProtectData  So decrypt it first with CryptUnprotectData  Bytes of interest  little-endian      -16  and  -15  is a year of expiration   -14  and  -13  is a month of expiration   -12  and  -11  is a day of expiration    Increasing these values  preferable the year      WILL extend your trial period and get rid of a blocking screen  I know nothing of such a tool that allows to edit encrypted registry values  so my small program in C   and Windows API looks like   RegGetValue CryptUnprotectData Data pbData Data cbData-16     CryptProtectData RegSetValue   Actual language doesn t matter if you have access to registry and crypto functions in your language  I m just fluent in C    Sorry  I do not publish a ready-to-use code for ethical reason

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Remember  if you are inside of private red with some proxy  you must be logout and relogin with an external WIFI for example

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