I can't sign in to use Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition

Question

It's supposedly free, However, Using it for more than a month would "require" a license, I read somewhere in the internet that I need to sign in with my account, But doing so causes the following text to show up:

Sorry, we ran into a problem

The online service is not available. Please try again later.

Along side a link to a URL that redirects to the Microsoft VS support page, Help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Hello @Hsyenoh05 ,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum.

As Visual Studio 2013 is an old version of Visual Studio, you need to configure .NET Framework to support strong cryptography.

Please kindly check this thread: Visual Studio 2013 Pro – The online service is not available.

For configuring to support strong cryptography > press Windows key + R > type regedit > navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft.NetFramework\v4.0.30319 > add a new registry entry named SchUseStrongCrypto > set its type to DWord > set its value = 1(or creating a new registry entry by using PS command).

For enabling TLS 1.0 > press Windows key + R > type regedit > navigate to Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurityProviders\SCHANNEL\Protocols\ > TLS 1.0 > Client > Enabled DWord value 1.

Sincerely,

Tianyu

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