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It used to be you bought a key to unlock it permanently, but nowadays it ties your license to your Microsoft account. There’s a link to “unlock with a product k
by OkGoDoIt 6y ago
It used to be you bought a key to unlock it permanently, but nowadays it ties your license to your Microsoft account. There’s a link to “unlock with a product key“, but I have no idea how you get one of those. I hate renting software rather than owning it, but also VS2019 is where I’m most productive so I put up with it.
This isn’t even the first time this has happened. I do most of my development on my desktop computer, sometimes I go long stretches without using my laptop. More than once I opened up my laptop on a flight to try and get some coding work done, but surprise, license is expired and I don’t have any connectivity to renew it. Absolutely ridiculous.
- andi999 6y agoWhats the difference for you between VS2017 and VS2019?
- AlotOfReading 6y agoTime travel (reverse) debugging is a killer feature and only available for 2019 onwards. Prior to that you have to use their "IntelliTrace" stuff, which isn't nearly as good.
- orloffm 6y agoAlso small things around .net core stuff - better UI for project settings, built-in converter for packages.config etc.
- retox 6y ago>small things around .net core stuff I don't think you can target core 3.0+ at all in VS2017, and only 3.1 is supported now. What that means for security updates I don't know.
- DevoidSimo 6y agoYou used to be able to get keys for all windows software through an MSDN account. No idea if that's still the case, would have been around 2017 last time I had one.