How to Remote Debug on a Tablet with Windows 8 using a project on my PC that runs Windows 8.1?

Question

I want to Remotely Debug a Windows Store Application on a tablet which has Windows 8 and Visual Studio Remote Debugger 2013 installed.

The Windows Store App is on my PC with Windows 8.1 installed and when I try to debug I get the following error:

Error : DEP0700 : Registration of the app failed. error 0xC00CE014:           App manifest     validation error: The app manifest must be valid as per schema: Line 25, Column    8, Reason: Element '{http://schemas.microsoft.com/appx/2013/manifest}VisualElements' is unexpected according to content model of parent element '{http://schemas.microsoft.com/appx/2010/manifest}Application'.
Expecting: {http://schemas.microsoft.com/appx/2010/manifest}VisualElements.
 (0x80080204)   TabletDemo

Is there any way around this without upgrading my Tablet to Windows 8.1?

Answer 1

Visual Studio 2013 targets Windows 8.1. You need to use Visual Studio 2012 to target Windows 8.

But you can also have a look to this post : Is it possible to create a Windows 8 Store App from Visual Studio 2013?

By manually modifying the .csproj file it seems possible to use 2013 to target 8.0. Remove the lines :

<TargetPlatformVersion>8.1</TargetPlatformVersion>
<MinimumVisualStudioVersion>12</MinimumVisualStudioVersion>

Answer 2

I found a solution from a previous question:

Is it possible to create a Windows 8 Store App from Visual Studio 2013?

Here are the steps:

Go to your project folder and edit your project's .csproj file:

• Uncomment or delete the elements:

  < TargetPlatformVersion > 8.1 < /TargetPlatformVersion >

  and

  < MinimumVisualStudioVersion > 12 < /MinimumVisualStudioVersion >

• Open your project in Visual Studio

• Open your MainPage.xaml file:

  Change < Grid Background="{ThemeResource ApplicationPageBackgroundThemeBrush}">

  to

  < Grid Background="{StaticResource ApplicationPageBackgroundThemeBrush}">

  and

  Delete Style="{StaticResource NavigationBackButtonNormalStyle}"

  and

  Delete Style="{StaticResource HeaderTextBlockStyle}"

• Open your Package.appxmanifest file's code definition and change:

  < m2:VisualElements DisplayName="App2" Square150x150Logo="Assets\Logo.png" Square30x30Logo="Assets\SmallLogo.png" Description="App2" ForegroundText="light" BackgroundColor="#464646"> < m2:SplashScreen Image="Assets\SplashScreen.png" /> < /m2:VisualElements>

  to

  < VisualElements DisplayName="TabletDemo" Logo="Assets\Logo.png" SmallLogo="Assets\SmallLogo.png" Description="TabletDemo" ForegroundText="light" BackgroundColor="#464646"> < DefaultTile ShortName="aa"> < /DefaultTile> < SplashScreen Image="Assets\SplashScreen.png" /> < /VisualElements>

Answer 3

You have to remove the <TargetPlatformVersion> and <MinimumVisualStudioVersion> tags from the .csproj file.

Have a look here

Answer 4

changed

8.1 to 8.0 in TargetPlatformVersion in the project's .csproj file

And

< m2:VisualElements DisplayName="App2" Square150x150Logo="Assets\Logo.png" Square30x30Logo="Assets\SmallLogo.png" Description="App2" ForegroundText="light" BackgroundColor="#464646"> < m2:SplashScreen Image="Assets\SplashScreen.png" /> < /m2:VisualElements>

to

< VisualElements DisplayName="TabletDemo" Logo="Assets\Logo.png" SmallLogo="Assets\SmallLogo.png" Description="TabletDemo" ForegroundText="light" BackgroundColor="#464646"> < DefaultTile ShortName="aa"> < /DefaultTile> < SplashScreen Image="Assets\SplashScreen.png" /> < /VisualElements> in Package.appxmanifest file.

These 2 changes fixed the issue for me