How to use different accounts for VS 2022 Community and Professional ?

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How to use different accounts for VS 2022 Community and Professional ?

Constantin, Adrian 10

Hello

I have VS 2022 Community and Professional editions installed.

Is there a way to use a Microsoft account with the Community edition, and another account with the Professional edition ? Currently the same account shows up on both editions after login, which is a problem ... why does VS do this ?

How is it that I can still log into the Professional edition even with my old account that doesn't have the license for it ?

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Thank you,
Adrian Constantin

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Tianyu Sun-MSFT 34,446 Microsoft External Staff

Hello @Constantin, Adrian,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum.

Please try to remove all accounts from Help => Register Visual Studio(or from start window when you launch VS), click Sign out option to sign out Visual Studio and use the correct account to sign in two different versions of VS again.

Also please try to rename this folder => C:\Users\user name\AppData\Local\.IdentityService, in case the issue is caused by cache files.

Besides, is there any relationship between your two accounts? Maybe they are managed by the same platform?

Sincerely,

Tianyu

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Constantin, Adrian 10 Reputation points

2023-07-18T15:42:13.9733333+00:00

Still no luck.

I removed all accounts from the Register Visual Studio window, from both Professional and Community editions. I renamed the "%LocalAppData%.IdentityService" directory

VS still shows the same behaviour: when I log in to Visual Studio Community, that same account is logged in to the Professional edition, and vice-versa.

It even works live if I have both editions open at the same time: change account on one edition, and it also changes on the other.

My two accounts are not related, other then they are both mine. They are my personal Microsoft account, and the company-provided Microsoft account (with Professinal license).

The issue is I need to keep the Professinal license from my work account separated from the tutorial projects and pet projects on my personal account.
Tianyu Sun-MSFT 34,446 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2023-07-19T09:12:39.06+00:00

Hi @Constantin, Adrian,

Thanks for sharing more information.

I notice that with all accounts settings unchecked(synchronization) the different versions of Visual Studio still automatically signed in with the same account. Even if I chose to use other web browsers to sign in VS.

I strongly recommend directly submitting a ticket on our Developer Community to double confirm this issue with VS Product Team.

If you do submit a ticket on Developer Community, please kindly share us the thread link for better tracking.

Regards,

Tianyu

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