Visual Studio 2017: Error Deploying to Raspberry Pi 3

28May/180

Visual Studio 2017: Error Deploying to Raspberry Pi 3

Any chance you've just opened up sample code to deploy an ARM-based project to a Raspberry Pi and you get this error?

DEP6100 : The following unexpected error occurred during bootstrapping stage 'Connecting to the device 'IP ADDRESS OF PI'.': 
MissingMethodException - 'Microsoft.Tools.Connectivity.RemoteDevice.Ping()'

Did you just install the Windows 10 SDK? My first recommendation is to reboot your machine! ...but actually, you don't really have to do that. Just restart visual studio. And yes, I know you closed it when you were installing the SDK... for some reason even opening it up straight after didn't work. A second restart of just VS2017 worked fine.

Also.. the default screen resolution is wrong on the PI when with a 7" 800x480 LCD. It really screws with the touch-screen input. Thanks to this article, we only have to do the following:

$username = "administrator"
$password = "[YOUR PASSWORD]"
$securePassword = ConvertTo-SecureString $password -AsPlainText -Force
$cred = New-Object -TypeName System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -ArgumentList $username, $securePassword

$pstimeout = New-PSSessionoption -OperationTimeout (1000*60*5)
Enter-PSSession -computer [IP OF RASPBERRY PI 3] -Credential $cred -ErrorAction Stop -SessionOption $pstimeout

Save the above as a script and run it in the PowerShell ISE.

[IP IF MACHINE]: PS C:\> SetDisplayResolution.exe 800 480
Set Display Resolution and Orientation

replace line: gpu_mem=32                  # Set VC to 32MB, ARM DRAM to (1008-32)MB
append line: hdmi_mode=87
append line: hdmi_cvt=800 480 60 6 0 0 0
append line: lcd_rotate=0
Success! - You now need to reboot the device
use "shutdown -r -t 0"

Reboot!