Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Is there a fix for the 'App Didn't Start' error in Visual Studio

This error appears when you try to deploy the project to the Local Machine (x64). There are no errors during build or deploy stages. However, when you try to run the machine you come up with this message after the App shows up momentarily and disappears immediately.


Trying to deploy to an emulator such as Mobile Emulator 10.0.14393.0 WVGA 4 Inch 512MB comes with the following errors. The emulator is running:


Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Error  DEP0001: Unexpected Error: SmartDeviceException - The system cannot find the file specified. [0x80131500] RMD   

However when you deploy it to a device (in this case Lumia 925) the app gets deployed with no errors.

In order to proceed to package it for uploading to the Windows Store I am not sure just deploying it to the device is good enough.

Is there a fix?

Yes. This was my fix.


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