Is Visual Studio Community a 30 day trial?

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Robin Rodricks picture Robin Rodricks · Apr 13, 2017 · Viewed 251.1k times · Source

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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Peter picture Peter · Apr 13, 2017

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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