vgribok / VSCELicense

PowerShell module to get and set Visual Studio Community Edition license expiration date in the registry

VSCELicense

Details

PowerShell module to get and set Visual Studio Community Edition license expiration date in the registry. Visual Studio 2017 and 2019 are supported.

Based on Dmitrii's answer to this question: Visual Studio Community 2017 is a 30 day trial?

Usage

1. Download/clone this repository

2. Import module:

   Import-Module -Name X:\PATH\TO\VSCELicense

Examples

Get Visual Studio Community Edition license expiration date

Get-VSCELicenseExpirationDate -Version VS2017

Get-VSCELicenseExpirationDate -Version VS2019

Set Visual Studio Community Edition license expiration date

Writing to the Visual Studio license registry key requires elevated permissions. Run PowerShell as administrator for examples to work.

Set license expiration date to current date + 31 day

Set-VSCELicenseExpirationDate -Version VS2017

Set-VSCELicenseExpirationDate -Version VS2019

Set license expiration date to current date + 10 days

Set-VSCELicenseExpirationDate -Version VS2017 -AddDays 10

Set-VSCELicenseExpirationDate -Version VS2019 -AddDays 10

Set license expiration date to current date

This will immediately expire your license and you wouldn't be able to use Visual Studio.

Set-VSCELicenseExpirationDate -Version VS2017 -AddDays 0

Set-VSCELicenseExpirationDate -Version VS2019 -AddDays 0

Changelog

• 0.0.1 - Initial commit, VS2017 support
• 0.0.2 - Added VS2019 support
• 0.0.3 - Fixed manifest to avoid execution errors under fresh PowerShell environments (@1Dimitri)
• 0.0.4 - Support downlevel PowerShell versions, starting from 3.0
• 0.0.5 - Duh, actually set PowerShellVersion = '3.0' in manifest
• 0.0.6 - Load System.Security assembly if module was imported without manifest