{"id":8075,"date":"2014-02-22T08:21:26","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T07:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=8075"},"modified":"2014-02-22T08:21:26","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T07:21:26","slug":"visual-studio-license-expired-not-what-you-want-to-see-just-before-boarding-a-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/8075-visual-studio-license-expired-not-what-you-want-to-see-just-before-boarding-a-flight.html","title":{"rendered":"Visual Studio license expired: not what you want to see just before boarding a flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While waiting to board I fired up Visual Studio 2013 thinking I might tinker with the game I am working on during the flight. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/image17.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/image_thumb17.png\" width=\"404\" height=\"433\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I got this unwelcome message. \u201cYour license has gone stale.\u201d This is because I have an MSDN version which apparently is no longer a perpetual license.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to what looks like a beginner programming error, I am also informed that the license will expire in 2147483647 days.<\/p>\n<p>The other factor here is that I only use Visual Studio on this machine when travelling. Although my subscription is still in date, the software has to call home once in a while or it stops working.<\/p>\n<p>Fair enough for Microsoft to protect its rights but I wonder if this could be fine-tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While waiting to board I fired up Visual Studio 2013 thinking I might tinker with the game I am working on during the flight. I got this unwelcome message. \u201cYour license has gone stale.\u201d This is because I have an MSDN version which apparently is no longer a perpetual license. Thanks to what looks like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/8075-visual-studio-license-expired-not-what-you-want-to-see-just-before-boarding-a-flight.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Visual Studio license expired: not what you want to see just before boarding a flight<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,94],"tags":[586,955],"class_list":["post-8075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-visual-studio","tag-microsoft","tag-visual-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}