Our team currently has two business licences to Xamarin and one Mac book Pro, which is connected to the companies network.
If one of us opens the Hello World app within Visual Studio 2012 on Windows 7, we can connect, build, deploy to the Mac and see the iPhone simulator running the application.
However, if the second user attempts to do the same, they're unable to connect to the Build Host, as it's currently being used.
Is there a way to either manually disconnect the connection between PC 1 and Mac, so that PC 2 can connect, or can multiple PC's connect simultaneously with a additional build arguments?
Many Thanks
Dom
Xamarin 3.3 (stable) for Visual Studio now has a button for quick disconnect from a build host.
EDIT:
Xamarin 4.0
You can run one Mac virtual machine per Visual Studio instance using VMware Fusion on your Mac. I'm not sure of the legal implications, however.
To disconnect you can just go to the MAC and unpair in the "Xamarin.iOS Build Host" (same place you got the password required for pairing.
Then to connect from the second PC you can go (in VS) to:
Tools->Options->Xamarin-> iOS Settings-> Find Mac Build Host... follow the same steps as you did to connect the first PC.
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Any one suggest me using visual studio can we deploy any of the iOS application in Simulator not connecting to Mac Agent??? Through Windows Machine.
Thanks In Advance!!
No it is an apple licensing requirement. There is the xamarin live player in preview which will let you test apps on an iphone without an mac
https://www.xamarin.com/live
Simulator for iOS always runs on Mac, there is no simulator for iOS for Windows. You can only cast the screen to Windows so that you don't have to look on the Mac screen, but that's all, you need a mac for that (and this requires Visual Studio Enterprise which you probably don't have - assuming from your other statements).
If you want to develop without Mac you can try to install Xamarin Live Player on your iOS device. And also you can't build the final package without a Mac (and it also required for uploading it to the store), just in this case you can possibly get some Mac in the cloud and pay per hour.
If you don't have even the iOS device then you need to buy it as this can't be resolved in any way.
I have a maybe a small problem.
My task is to test a windows 8.1 tablet app. I have no tablet here, so I installed the Visual Studio 2013 Express and the Windows Phone SDK.
If I start the "windows phone application deployment" and try to start the *.appxbundle file, I get an error
a packaging error prevented this application from installing
I sent this back to the developer, he means the app is made for tablets and have to be tested on tablets.
So my question:
Is it somehow possible to simulate windows 8.1 tablet on a windows 8.1 system?
How to install the .appxbundle file?
Thanks.
If you want to test the app in a tablet then there is no need of a Windows Phone SDK or any simulator. You can install the app in your Windows 8.1 pc/desktop, and it will be the same as it will be on a tablet, because a windows store app is common for tablet and pc.
And to install the .appxbundle you can refer to this link (from step 6).
Found a solution, install the app with windows power shell
add-appxpackage C:\myapp.appx
As in title, I am trying to deploy my game application to my wp8 device in VS 2012, but it will only run the emulator and nothing else.
There are no options for deployment other than 'start' unlike in a windows phone game(4.0) or a windows phone app on VS2012 where you can select 'Device'
Sorry if this question is a bit vague, just hitting a wall here and would appreciate any help.
Thanks in advance!
start option automatically updates when you open the project.as per your project it will be updated,if you open windows 7.1 project then 4 type of emulators will be displayed in the list .if you open wp 8 project then there will be only start option. when you connects the phone device to computer in that list you will get device option by selecting it you will be able to run projects on your deice. unless you connect any device to computer IDE will not display device option.
Previously I was using Visual Studio 2012 (including Update 2) with Windows Phone SDK 8.0 in Windows 8. Everything was fine and emulator connected to internet as expected without any additional settings.
But later in same machine I installed Windows 8.1 and set up same environment with Visual Studio 2012 (including Update 2 and 3) with Windows Phone SDK 8.0. Only additional thing was Visual Studio 2012 Update 3 as it is required in Windows 8.1
Now my Windows Phone 8 doesn't connect to internet. It doesn't give any error messages and just doesn't load any web page in mobile internet explorer. I'm using mobile broadband dongle to connect to internet.
There are several discussion regarding internet issue in wp8 emulator but non of them talk about this specific issue comes with Windows 8.1
Is there anyone who had same problem and solved it?
Most probably the bridged connections created by Hyper-V got removed/changed. If suitable I would suggest you remove the WP 8.0 SDK and then install it again and see if it solved the issue.
Optionally you can try to fiddle with the 'Virtual newtork...' adapters in Hyper-V to fix this, but I'm not help there as I didn't manage to solve it that way.
Cheers,
Manuel
I finished a windows phone project. And try to do Debug->Start windows phone application analysis on visual studio 2012 (also 2013), but it doesn't work, and a dialog box pops up:
now I want to start windows phone application analysis on my project. how can I do this??
PS: I tried create new app from the windows phone template, it has the same error!
I had the same issue and alternatively i had error when opening .sap files too with :
Microsoft.Smartdevice.Connectivity.DeviceNotFoundException
This last error point me that you have to install SDK Update for Windows Phone 7.8 and everything work now.
Surprising that this prerequisite is not specified.