Visual Studio professional 2015 trial period ended

Question

I have downloaded and used the trial version of Visual studio professional 2015.

I would like to play around with the IDE for few more days before i actually buy the license.

Is there any way i can get the extended trial period for few more days without buying the license?

Also below screenshot shows to licence with an online account or product key.

But i am unable to extend the trail period with an new online account

Community Edition is free are you sure you are using a trial?? — apomene, Jan 04 '17 at 10:50
Possible duplicate of [License expired after installation Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 community](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31537812/license-expired-after-installation-microsoft-visual-studio-2015-community) — Tomasz Pluskiewicz, Jan 04 '17 at 10:51
Very sorry.. Its professional version 2015. I was reading lot of blogs and i wrote community in question. Anyway i edited now. Thanks a lot — A user, Jan 04 '17 at 10:55
@NahuelIanni Thank you. I am looking for professional version only. I tried community version and professional both. — A user, Jan 04 '17 at 11:05

Nahuel Ianni · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-04T11:29:02.037

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You can download the Visual Studio 2015 - Community edition which provides almost the same functionality, development wise; as the professional edition. The main difference is related to advanced TFS features, but you can still check the IDE as much and for as long as you want, while also using TFS as a source control.

The community edition is free and allows you to build and publish the all kind of applications, unit test included.

You can check this link to see a comparison between the existing versions.

If you need to use the Professional version, you can try creating a new Azure subscription (it's free) and using the free credits they give you on a monthly basis, create a virtual machine and use Visual Studio from there. Some VM templates already come with an installation of the IDE itself.

edited Jan 04 '17 at 11:29

answered Jan 04 '17 at 11:04

Nahuel Ianni

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Thanks! Any luck to extend the trail version of professional by using another online account? – A user Jan 04 '17 at 11:23
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In order to use an online account, as far as I know, it must be tied to an MSDN subscription with access to VS 2015 Pro, which I assume it's not your case. – Nahuel Ianni Jan 04 '17 at 11:24
Right! Azure sounds bit unsafe for critical projects. Although microsoft can be trusted to 100%, Not best option for me. But this option might help someone else here. – A user Jan 04 '17 at 11:33
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I downloaded community version and running my project. Happy days! Its looks all fine – A user Jan 04 '17 at 15:54
Glad to hear :) – Nahuel Ianni Jan 05 '17 at 08:19

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