Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition failed to download new license - c#

I recently uninstalled VS 2013 & 2015 from my system. I uninstalled every bit I could find that said anything about VS. I then reinstalled it, default installation, everything went fine. Then on start up I get a splash screen that says my 30 day trial evaluation period has ended. I refresh my credentials, then click on the "Check for an updated license" and it says "Failed to download a new license." I know my username and password are fine because I can even Visual Studio profile online and create a team service project, which will even load up in VS 2015 but the splash screen still pops up and blocks me from touching anything else. Has anyone ever come across this and found a solution? I tried looking on past posts and they all say click on the "Check for an updated license" link, It doesn't work for me.


Close Visual Studio
Delete %localappdata%\.IdentityService\SessionTokens.json
Open Visual Studio, "Reenter credentials" and then "Check for an updated license"


Run it as administrator. That worked for me.


I've seen this before, I think that there are a couple places to check:
My problem was solved through this thread:
License expired after installation Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 community
System Date on your machine, sometimes if this is set incorrectly it can mess with the licensing. This wasn't my problem.


What worked for me was to log in to my account. Then, I was able to successfully download and update the license; otherwise it failed to download.

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I've installed Visual Studio 2013 Premium (MSDN license) on my machine. Yet, the ASP.NET Web Application template is not there (except for Version2012, which offers me MVC 4, see screenshot below):
I have uninstalled and reinstalled VS2013 three times now. I've deleted the ItemTemplatesCache and ProjectTemplatesCache folders along with running the devenv /InstallVSTemplates and devenv /Setup to no avail. I've also checked to make sure web developer tools are installed. Under the \Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplatesCache\CSharp\Web folder, I only see MVC 4 template files. Am I missing something? An extension or additional program?
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I think that "Re-install Visual Studio from scratch" is not a solution.
I have faced with the described problem and found much faster way to fix it:
First of all, try to repair Visual Studio installation (in "Control Panel\Programs\Programs and Features" find your Visual Studio, right-click and select "Repair"). Reboot after (!).
Check if template appeared in the Visual Studio. If not, then: in the "Control Panel\Programs\Programs and Features" make sure that you have "Microsoft Web Platform Installer 4.x" installed (I have 4.6 version). If not - install it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx
Run "Web Platform Installer" (it should be here: "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft\Web Platform Installer\WebPlatformInstaller.exe")
On the "Products" tab find the line "Microsoft ASP.NET and Web Tools 2013.1 for Visual Studio 2013" (make sure that it is not for 2012!). If line has "Add" button on the right side enabled, then click it and install the tools. Reboot PC (!) and you should have your ASP.NET project template back.
If line says "Installed", then you should repair it via "Control Panel\Programs\Programs and Features", just find "Microsoft ASP.NET and Web Tools 2013.1 -Visual Studio 2013", right-click and select "Repair"). Reboot PC (!) and you should have your ASP.NET project template back!
Cheers!

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Not the solution in your case, but I had a similar issue where I could not find the MVC templates. Eventually I realized that I still had .NET Framework 3.5 selected, which of course does not provide MVC... switching to .NET Framework 4.5 let me find the MVC templates again.
You already had 4.5 selected in the screenshot, but I'm just posting this here for others who might make the same mistake as I did.

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Have you tried updating the gallery
Tools>Extension and updates> Templates
To get up and running you could click Version 2012 under Web and get to the stock web applications templates which will provide you upto MVC 4
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Update for Studio 2013:
Make sure you install express for Windows and not express for Windows Desktop. The Desktop version does not have the Web templates.

I had a similar issue with VS 2013 Web Express Update 3. After reinstalling stuff all week its fixed. I had to uninstall VS, delete the "Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0" directory, and reinstall VS. There are other workarounds that are more precise.

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This is the error image and the next image shows i have VS2013 installed with Update 1
Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC error:
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I had the same problem when installing Update 2 for my Visual Studio Express 2013 for Web.
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More less the same as mentioned in the article from the link above. Thanks Keval.

The above answer never helped me.
The problem was my Operating System wasn't detecting my Visual Studio 2013, even though i tried to reinstall it, instead it was already installed but was never detected by computer.
I used cmd to uninstall VS2013 by command eg. "uninstall c:/...devenv.exe /Force" and then again installed VS2013 and applied the update

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