VisualStudio Community 2013 prompts to update trial license

Question

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?

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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 .

Answer 3

I had the same issue. I signed out of visual studio, and restarted my PC. That solved the issue. Hope this helps

Answer 4

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 5 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.

@EDIT0:

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 (displaying VStudio 2017 as an example):

Again, no need to stay signed in after performing the license upgrade.

@EDIT1:

Same thing applies to VStudio 2019:

Answer 5

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.