Disable "Get a developer license" notification in Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 [duplicate]

Question

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...

Answer 1

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):

1. Make sure the critical notification is currently active (i.e., red notification).
2. Open up File Explorer and navigate to the C:\Users[UserName]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\Notifications directory.
3. Open the Notifications_Active.xml file found in in a text editor.
4. Find the notification element referring to the developer license.
5. 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.

Answer 2

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.