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If your company purchased Visual Studio under a specific licensing model

If you are using Visual Studio Code , this specific error message is rare, as VS Code is generally free. This message almost exclusively pertains to the full-fledged Visual Studio IDE (the purple icon).

If you bought your subscription directly, you must renew within of the expiration date to qualify for discounted renewal pricing .

If you’ve seen the message you’re likely facing a sudden halt in your development workflow. This notice means your access to the premium Visual Studio IDE and its associated benefits has been suspended due to an ended subscription term. Immediate Impact of an Expired Subscription your visual studio subscription has expired

If you have a product key (typically found on your my.visualstudio.com dashboard under "Product Keys"), you can bypass online validation.

You can download an offline license token.

When you see "Your Visual Studio subscription has expired," the IDE does not simply shut down. Microsoft employs a and then a reduced functionality mode . If your company purchased Visual Studio under a

You have a license, but you installed Visual Studio Enterprise . The Enterprise edition demands a more expensive license. If your subscription is for Pro, Enterprise will always show "expired" or "no license found."

Seeing is a jarring experience, but it is rarely a disaster. In 90% of cases, the problem is a simple account mismatch or a corrupted cache file that can be fixed in under three minutes.

Hi Team,

Alternatively, for a (e.g., to yourself or a colleague):

There are generally three tiers of subscriptions that encounter this issue: