Get A developer license for Windows Store app

Developer licenses is free, and you can get the as many as you need so it all your test machines has one. If you get the one or more developer licenses by using a Microsoft account, you must renew them every. If you get the one or more developer licenses by using a Store account, you must renew them every, and you might gain Other advantages.

When you run or debug an app for the first time on a remote machine or on a device that's directly connected to your dev Elopment machine, your ' re prompted to download a separate developer license for that machine or device. You can ' t install a developer license on a machine remotely, so you must get the license by using the machine or device it Self. After you install a developer license on the remote machine or device, you can install, run, and debug packages that hav En ' t been certified. The developer license on the remote doesn ' t affect apps, the Store has already certified or desktop apps.

Get a developer license by using Visual Studio

When you run Microsoft Visual Studio on your local machine for the first time, you ' re prompted to get a developer lice Nse. Read the license terms, and then choose the I Agree button. The User account Control (UAC) dialog box, choose the Yes button to continue.

After you install a license in a local machine, you won ' t is prompted again on this machine unless the license expires (or You remove it) and you try to run an uncertified Store app or create a project. As long as you had a developer license that hasn ' t expired, you can run uncertified Store apps on your local machine by C Hoosing the F5 key in Visual Studio or Blend for Visual Studio:

NoteYour domain administrator can configure Your computer to obtain a developer license without connecting to the Internet PR ovided that your computer meets certain requirements. See this section below about what to enable a computer to obtain a developer license without have to connect to the Inter Net. Renew a developer license by using Visual Studio

You can renew a developer license whenever you ' re using the Visual Studio IDE. If you ' re using Microsoft Visual Studio Express-for Windows, choose Store, acquire Developer license on the menu bar. If you ' re using a different version of Visual Studio, choose Project, Store, acquire Developer Licen Se on the menu bar.

Get A developer license at a command prompt

If you aren ' t using Visual Studio, you can get and manage developer licenses at a command prompt by running these command s in Windows PowerShell:

• Show-WindowsDeveloperLicenseRegistration. This command opens a dialog box from which you can get a developer license and install it on the local machine. To run the This command, you must has a valid Microsoft account. You also must run the command in a command prompt with elevated permissions.
• Get-WindowsDeveloperLicense. This command, returns an object, has both Properties:expirationtime and IsValid. Expirationtime is a System.DateTime structure this contains the date and time when the license expires. IsValid is a System.Boolean this indicates whether the license is valid. You can run the command from a command prompt that doesn ' t has elevated permissions.
• Unregister-WindowsDeveloperLicense. This command warns you some apps would stop working if you remove the developer license from the local machine. If you choose "Yes" (the default) to confirm this want to remove the license, the license are removed from the local MA Chine. You must run the command in a command prompt with elevated permissions.

Open PowerShell to execute the following command:

1 (View developer license) show-windowsdeveloperlicenseregistration2 (Get developer license) Get-windowsdeveloperlicense 3 (Logoff developer license) Unregister-windowsdeveloperlicense

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