After your token expires, you must reenter your credentials for the account before you can continue using Visual Studio. If you do not reenter your credentials, the token starts to go stale and the Account Settings dialog tells you how many days you have left before your token expires. Visual Studio reports that the license is stale because of one of the following reasons:
This message indicates that while your subscription might still be valid, the license token that Visual Studio uses to keep your subscription up to date hasn't been refreshed. You might see a message in Visual Studio that says, 'Your license has gone stale and must be updated.' You must sign in to the IDE to use pre-release versions.įor more information about Visual Studio product keys for Visual Studio and how to get them, see the Using product keys in Visual Studio subscriptions page. Pre-release versions of Visual Studio do not have product keys.
