Visual Studio Community 2015 expiration date

Question

I have downloaded the Visual Studio Community 2015 (free version) and I don't see when the expiration date is.

I have tried to see the expiration date at Help Menu -> About Microsoft Visual Studio and there is no expiration date there.

Is there any expiration date (I have a Microsoft account)? If yes, Where can I see it? Or until when is it?

Answer 1

There isn't an expiration date for the community edition.

The usage section from the from the Visual Studio website clearly states:

For individuals

Any individual developer can use Visual Studio Community to create their own free or paid apps.

For organizations

An unlimited number of users within an organization can use Visual Studio Community for the following scenarios: in a classroom learning environment, for academic research, or for contributing to open source projects.

For all other usage scenarios: In non-enterprise organizations, up to five users can use Visual Studio Community. In enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or >$1 Million US Dollars in annual revenue), no use is permitted beyond the open source, academic research, and classroom learning environment scenarios described above.

Answer 2

Visual Studio Community 2015 is free. But I got the 30 day trial expired message. After some googling figured out that I have to sign in with a Microsoft account. So I signed up with my Hotmail account and after that I was able to continue using the VS community 2015.

Answer 3

I am running VSCommunity 2015 in Win8.1 virtual machine installed inside a Parallels 11 virtual machine installed on my Mac OSX El Capitan. To my surprise and delight it installed and ran fine. I used it for 2 weeks without signing into my Microsoft account. I tried to login 6 weeks later and got the 30 day trial screen shown above.

However for me I was able to simply click on the link above shown as "Check for an updated license" and was prompted in to log in to my Microsoft account. I did so and it granted me a license successfully and was seamless. Now under License Status it displays as "This product is licensed to: ".

I guess I got lucky as I'm guessing this is how it is supposed to work.

[sidebar]: Over the decades I've disliked most MS products but have been out of the VS IDE development tools game for awhile, and I have to say using VSComm15 has been flawless. Using it to learn C# and the IDE itself for a new contract job and it worked perfectly and has great features.

Answer 4

In my case, even after sign up to Visual Studio account, I cant sign in and the license still expired.

Solution from across the internet: Download iso version of the installer. Then run installer, select repair. That would solve the problem for most case.

In my case, I got an iso version of ms Visual Studio 2013. Installed it and I can successfully sign in and its forever free.

Answer 5

Here is an instructions for the problem:

You can evaluate Visual Studio for free up to 30 days.

To Unlock Visual Studio using an online subscription

Link Microsoft account to Visual Studio 2015

I have encountered this problem:

Possible solution can be found at the link above.

This message indicates that while your subscription may still be valid, the license token Visual Studio uses to keep your subscription up to date hasn’t been refreshed and has gone stale due to one of the following reasons: You have not used Visual Studio or have had no internet connection for an extend period of time. You signed out of Visual Studio.

Answer 6

You can use "RunasDate" to solve this.