I just updated my VS2013 to Update 4. Now there's this really annoying red flag in the top right corner of VS that wants me to get a license to develop Windows Store and Windows Phone apps. I really don't want to create these kinds of applications.
How do I turn the message off? Getting a license by registering with an account and sending some more personal data to Microsoft is really not an option. And "Dismiss" seems to just mute it for some time...
As David Kolar say, this question is a duplicate of Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 - How to Stop Annoying Notifications.
Quoting the solution that works for me (since m a ReSharper user):
- Make sure the critical notification is currently active (i.e., red notification).
- Open up File Explorer and navigate to the C:\Users[UserName]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\Notifications directory.
- Open the Notifications_Active.xml file found in in a text editor.
- Find the notification element referring to the developer license.
- Change the value of the Severity element to 0 instead of 2.
This should make the red alert no longer kick in for this notification as long as you leave the notification active (i.e., do not dismiss it).
Just a note: before continuing with step 2 remember to close all instances of visual studio, otherwise changes to the severity in the Notifications_Active.xml file won't work.
Changing the severity didn't work for me. Instead, I opened VS2013, dismissed the alert, then inside Notifications_Archive.xml, I changed the expiration to some time in the past. I closed and reopened VS2013 and the alert is now gone.
