Offline Enterprise license activation for Visual Studio for Mac

Question

Hello

When the build server is not connected to internet and cannot perform the MSDN authentication to activate the Enterprise license.

Is there an offline activation of the license? I know it was possible for Xamarin Studio.

Thank you.

Answer 1

Hi anaselhajjaji,

There is still no such feature in Visual Studio, someone posted an idea and VS team had replied it:

https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio-ide/suggestions/9563619-enable-vs-community-activation-registration-offlin

if you still could provide this suggestion to VS team from Help on Visual Studio. 

Or you could post this request on the developer community where there is particular topic for Visual Studio for mac:

https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/spaces/41/index.html

 

Best regards,

Fletcher

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Answer 2

Hi,

Currently there is no offline activation for Visual Studio Professional for Mac or Visual Studio Enterprise for Mac. However, Visual Studio 2017 for Mac can be used in environments without an internet connection in accordance with the license.
If you have purchased Visual Studio Enterprise 2017 for Mac for machines without an internet connection, you may continue to use Visual Studio for Mac without activation, but Xamarin Inspector, Xamarin Profiler, and embedded assemblies features will not be available.

refer: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/mac/activation

Best regards,

Joyce

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Answer 3

Thank you for your answer.

Actually, we use the embedded assemblies feature.

Answer 4

Hi anaselhajjaji,

Thanks for your feedback. You could mark a reply as answer if it's okay for you.

Thanks for your support.

Have a nice day:)

 

Best regards,

Fletcher

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