Visual Studio will not log in

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Visual Studio will not log in

Matej Cigale 10

I've been trying to sign in into my Visual Studio 2022 with my subscribtion, but it's just not happening. If I wait a really long time it asks me to which account I want to sign in, then I can input the password, two factor authentication goes trough but nothing happens. The signing in circle is still spinning and if I leave it going for over an hour I get an error:

Provide value on 'System.Windows.Markup.StaticResourceHolder' threw an exception.

I tried reinstalling VS, cleaning the cache restarting my PC. Anything really.

Anna Xiu-MSFT 31,056 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2024-11-28T12:19:06.2233333+00:00

Hello, may I know whether your issue has been solved or not? If not, please share it in here. We can work together to figure it out.

You can update your VS2022 to the latest version and sign into VS again.
Andrew Morrell 0 Reputation points

2025-02-27T10:45:48.2233333+00:00

Microsoft account handling is just so poor. There is zero feedback when trying to work out why log ins fail. I have this same issue and have spent a day going round in circles just because I want to use dev ops in the cloud. Why will VS just not prompt me to log in and when it does, why does the blue spinning icon return for hours before stopping?

I have tried deleting the identity stuff and resetting browser caches, disabling firewalls and still no luck.

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Anna Xiu-MSFT 31,056 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2024-11-28T12:19:06.2233333+00:00

Hello, may I know whether your issue has been solved or not? If not, please share it in here. We can work together to figure it out.

You can update your VS2022 to the latest version and sign into VS again.
Andrew Morrell 0 Reputation points

2025-02-27T10:45:48.2233333+00:00

Microsoft account handling is just so poor. There is zero feedback when trying to work out why log ins fail. I have this same issue and have spent a day going round in circles just because I want to use dev ops in the cloud. Why will VS just not prompt me to log in and when it does, why does the blue spinning icon return for hours before stopping?

I have tried deleting the identity stuff and resetting browser caches, disabling firewalls and still no luck.

Answer 1

Hi @Matej Cigale ,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A!

How did you sign in your account?

Please try the following steps:

Close all running VS instances.
Delete your browser history, cache and cookies.
Delete all files of %localappdata%\.Identityservice.
Relaunch your Visual Studio and click on the “Help” menu> Send Feedback > Report a Problem… > Sign into your account on Visual Studio Feedback page
Go back to Visual Studio and check if you have signed in your account.

Sincerely,

Anna

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Ian Belchamber 6

I agree with Andrew, vs login is very poor. For years, I and my team have randomly had to spend hours trying to get properly signed in, rebooting many times, having to make new workspaces etc etc losing checked out work etc until eventually something happens and it works again.

Please test and fix this Microsoft!

Andrew Morrell 0 Reputation points

2025-03-19T16:06:24.0633333+00:00

I'm pleased to hear it's not just me ;-) I saw a similar issue on one of the Tim Corey videos where he had a similar issue. What seems to be the almost reliable trick is to go to a web page, try and log in via the web first, then return to Visual Studio and possibly even reboot Visual Studio and then as a last resort go to Visual Studio --> File --> Account Settings and try logging in there.

Why Microsoft can't fix this is beyond me but I suspect it would require them to simplify the log in process and remove caching but to be honest, it would at least work even if you needed to log in a bit more regularly.

And Microsoft, if listening, please please please stop reinventing the Windows UI. You had something good at XP, then stuff started to look pretty - yes okay it did improve but now it needs to stop. Windows 7 was more than fine. Windows 8 tile interface was a complete disaster along the lines of Vista. Just stop trying to a make a round wheel more round - unless it makes the spinning wheels of despair when trying to log in yet again more pretty . . . .

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