Your developer license has expired (Windows 8)

Question

My temporary developer license (using Visual Studio 2011 Beta and Windows 8 Consumer Preview) expired and a popup asked me to aply for a new one. This all seemed to work, but when I build and deploy to the local machine it takes me to the app store and tells me that the developer license has expired.

I've tried:

• Unistalling my app from the home screen
• Cleaning my project solution
• Removing my developer license using powershell command Unregister-WindowsDeveloperLicense and getting new license again
• Restarting machine

I can create new projects that build and deploy fine, but my existing project is stuffed. Is the old licence cached somewhere and how can I get it to forget about it.

There is this similar quesion on MSDN. Someone managed to solve it, but there solution has not worked for me and there are other people saying it hasn't worked for them.

Answer 1

The first month this happened to me, a reboot solved it. The second time it didn't. I went into my package manifest and changed the package ID. It looked like a GUID and I just put kmg on the end. Then everything worked fine. Later I tried changing it back but it failed again so I guess my package ID ends in kmg now :-)

I believe it's because you're trying to overwrite a package that was shipped by a "different developer". They're going to have to fix that somehow but hey, this is what betas ^H^H^H^H^H previews are for, right?