Always fails. At first I thought there was an issue with the SD card. Then I read that you have to right-click and run as Administrator from your windows box. I could not get this to work – it never ran. In the end I had to enable the local Administrator on my windows box and login to that account and run the windows dashboard from that account. It then worked. Hope that helps someone.
Not sure what happened to this or why but its no longer available. I used to have a script that used it to convert binary data to text for attachments on emails. Having searched high and low I came up with a new solution – use openssl.
You can do the same that you were doing with mmencode by doing the following
openssl base64 -e < $FILE
Enjoy.
Trying to run up my windows project using Xamarin for windows phone 8. Kept getting this error when the windows phone 8.1 emulator
"Failed to start the virtual machine
Researched a bit and had a few goes and quite a few different solutions but had to manually edit .vmx file which is inside the vmware folders.
Had to add
hypervisor.cpuid.v0 = "FALSE"
Make sure you do this with the VM shutdown. And bobs your uncle it now runs up the windows 8.1 emulators. Took a while to run them up the first time but it did finally come up. Can now debug my Xamarin project on windows phone 8.1.
Enjoy
On running from the Xamarin studio, I could no longer deploy to the companie’s Motorola Ultra. From the deploy to device window I was seeing the following error: [INSTALL_FAILED_UPDATE_INCOMPATIBLE]
This normally means that there is an old version hanging around on the device which you can’t overwrite – usually because the older version is signed and the new version is not because its running as debug from the Xamarin studio. On most Android devices they show the package name of the app in the installed apps and you can just go and remove it by the usual un-install method.
For some reason on my companies Motorola Ultra this was not showing. Took me a while but this is how I did uninstall it. You have to run up the Android debugger for which on my mac is located in …
/Users/<loggedinuser>/Library/Developer/Xamarin/android-sdk-macosx/platform-tools
Then you issue the command
./adb uninstall com.<package>.<name>
And Bob’s your uncle the package is uninstalled and you can then run the new one up and it gets deployed to the phone with no issue.
Hope that helps someone.