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Fixing Visual Studio Continuously Prompting for Credentials

PublishedApril 25, 2021

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Nicklas Møller Jepsen

Copenhagen based cloud developer. Love to code and to make complex solutions simple!

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Software developer with a passion for coding and making simple solutions to complex problems. Lately also really enjoying developing microservices.

Sometimes I find a solution to problems I stumble upon infrequently - this means that next time I have the same problem enough time has passed so that I can no longer remember the solution to the problem. In these cases I find it very helpful to be able to look up in my on blog for the solution. This post is one of these cases... 😀

Every once in a while Visual Studio falls into an authorization loop where it keeps asking for my credentials. The root cause to the problem seems to be that I have some private nuget feeds and multiple Azure Active Directory accounts connected to my VS.

When I connect these accounts and setup the Nuget feeds Visual Studio will start prompting for my credentials everytime I restart VS and build the project. This is quite annoying but luckily there's a fix to this:

Close all Visual Studio instances
Delete the folder and all it's content: %localappdata%.IdentityService
Start Visual Studio
Build the project, when prompted for credentials, enter them, one last time
Restart Visual Studio, build the project and verify that you don't need to re-enter credentials anymore.

#visual-studio #tips #authentication

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