Is Visual Studio Community a 30 day trial?

Question

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 thoug

Answer 1

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

1. Download/clone this repository

2. Run PowerShell.exe as an Administrator

3. 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