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Why does re-signing in after a Visual Studio update "keep my account and data more secure"?

After every (minor) update to Visual Studio, I get the following screen on the first start [name and mail address on the right-hand side of the window redacted by me]: I can click "Skip this for ...
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AAD and NuGet vs. MSA and NuGet

We're working in a shared repository where we're not the owner. Our AAD accounts have been invited - [email protected]. We have no issues accessing the Git repo. THE ISSUE: We can't access the ...
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How can I use different user accounts for different versions of Visual Studio at the same time?

I have 2 different versions of Visual Studio. VS 2017 which I use for work stuff and the new VS 2019 Preview which I am using for fun stuff, I would like to log in with my work user account into VS ...
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Cannot sign into Visual Studio 2017

When I start, there is a popup saying that the evaluation period has finished. I simply need to sign into visual studio, but when I try I get this error: Microsoft Visual Studio We could not ...
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Visual Studio 2017.5: We could not refresh the credentials for the account. No Home Tenant found

After installing the .5-Update for Visual Studio 2017, I'm unable to login to my work- or school-account. I'm getting the following instead . I've tried the fix for the "Failed to Refresh Access ...
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Unable to sign in to Microsoft Account in Visual Studio

This morning Cloud Explorer asked me to re-authenticate (as it seems to every few days!), but I can't enter my credentials. The link to re-authenticate now does nothing and when I click 'Manage ...
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Accessing current Microsoft account from Visual Studio extension

I am writing a VS extension which will need to communicate with a server and identify the user, and I figured that if possible, since this extension will be the only client connecting to the server, ...
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Sign in to Visual Studio with Organization account instead Microsoft account

Nowadays it is possible to use Visual Studio Team Services from Microsoft Azure with Organization account, without having to have Microsoft Account. This is nice feature and we use it in our ...
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"Unable to open this helper application" after Sign In to Windows Azure on Visual Studio Server Explorer

I installed Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate version 12.0.30110.00 Update 1 on Windows 8.1 Enterprise. Then I installed the Windows Azure SDK 2.2. I open VS, go to Server Explorer -> Windows Azure -> ...
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