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Hello, I have been making a game in unity with the intent of playing it on the hololens 2. Currently, I only have a cube which I can move, scale and rotate.
When I connect the hololens 2 through a cable, I can deploy it to "Device" and it functions as expected. The problem occurs when I try and connect it wirelessly. I change it to "Remote Machine" and wait for it to build and deploy. When I do, however, I get the errors in the screenshot above.
I entered the Machine Name in the debugging settings, and the authentication type is set to "Universal (Unencrypted Protocol)." The Solution Configuration is set to Release and the Solution Platform is set to ARM64. The Hololens is already paired to my computer, so I don't get promoted to enter a PIN. Developer mode is also enabled on my PC and the hololens. The hololens also has Device Portal and Device Discovery enabled, but my computer does not since I am on Windows 11 Home.
There are two things I can think of that may be causing issues. Firstly, the hololens is on my school's network and is signed in on a school Microsoft account, so some permissions may be blocked. Secondly, the IP Address I found for the Hololens ends in "/16". Nothing on the internet seemed to say anything about a hololens having an IP address that ends in /16, so I don't know if that's the culprit.
One of the solutions I found that seemed to fix the issue I am having said I had to delete a .suo file, but I don't know where to find it. Here is the post: Deploying with Visual Studio 2019 to Hololens 2
I am not a noob at programming, but I am still learning. This is among the most complex projects I've ever worked on so I could have done something completely wrong. I am on windows 11 and I think I installed the correct SDKs, but I may have installed Windows 10 SDKs or something like that. As I said, it works when connected through USB, just not wirelessly.
Thank you in advance for any help, as this has been giving me problems for a while.
For anyone else who gets this issue, I found this post here which solved my problem:
Deployment from unity to Hololens 2 giving error DEP6957
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We are starting to work with react-native at my company. We have one mac and the rest of the team is running on windows.
Is there a way to write the app on windows with the ios device connected to the windows machine or local wifi. Then launch the build on the mac (from the windows pc) and get the app launched on the ios device ? So it would like using the mac only as a build/package server.
Hope i am clear enought.
Thanks.
We can launch the build on windows using Virtual Machine, the detailed steps for doing that can be found in the following link:
https://blog.udemy.com/xcode-on-windows/
Honest advice
The functionality of developing IOS apps on windows is something that Apple intentionally wants to block and hence tries to give you hard time doing that by purposeful hindrances in the software that slow you down in such attempts.
To do that, you will need to install Xcode, which requires MacOS, which you would have to install on a virtual machine if you ever want to use on windows, which itself is against the apple terms and policy
So, even if it works, you wouldn't be smoothly developing in such blocked environment. So I believe it isn't worth spending time on.
I am writing this since I have tried it myself, and want to help you to not waste your time. Since most websites during search including on youtube, this subject is for clickbait with videos with more dislikes than likes. The most you can get is the following
Use cloud services like MacInCloud, MacStadium, XcodeClub ( They are expensive )
Install MacOS on virtual machine like VirtualBox or Vmware ( Apple intentionally hinders such activities and you will have hard time installing it let alone using it for bearable development )
Build and use hackintosh ( expensive, I prefer buying mac )
I hope this saves your time
You should explore the option of running macOS in VMWare on Windows machines for building purposes.
EDIT:
Now using:
expo build:android
expo build:ios
Way simpler.
Old question, but for’people who are still searching for an easy solution, take a look at https://appcenter.ms
App center let you to build iOS app in the cloud, it’s free (unless you need lot of builds), easy (you just need to know how provisioning profile and certificate works and host your code on a online fit repo).
We use it to build and deploy app on iOS and android for 3 year (even if we work on Mac)
We only have 2 main issues: it’s slow 30 minutes for an iOS build, and not extremely stable. Sometime we need to relaunch build 3-5 times.
Well, you can setup a virtual machine.
Install VM Ware software and add MacOS image to run the operating system.
Then setup Xcode and build the react native iOS app.
I have a CSS bug (visual difference) that seems to happen only in iPhone X devices.
what I would usually do in cases like these is use the inspector tool in the browser the bug occurs to find the rule I wrote that is not cross browser, and do a trial and error in the inspector tool until I find what works cross browser and cross platform.
knowing that iPhone uses safari browser - I installed safari on my windows PC but couldn't reproduce the bug.
how can I simulate a browser in a iPhone on my windows PC? or is there another way to find the quirk in this case in order to fix it?
I can't afford a mac.
I have windows 10 on my PC but can also use a linux distribution if needed.
also, this cannot be debugged in a cloud because the security team won't allow the code to be hosted on an external cloud at the stage of development.
As far as I know, your best/cheapest approach would be to run MacOS within a Virtual Machine and then perform the steps Neal suggested.
But keep in mind that you need to run the network config of your Virtual Machine in "Bridge Mode" otherwise your virtual macos can't see any devices on your network.
I apologize if this has been covered elsewhere. I have researched this topic to the best of my ability but I am still unsure of the answers I have found. I am a senior in college and I am developing an app to essentially act as a remote control for a device that my team is building for our senior capstone project. Everything is progressing fine for the Android app etc., but we are interested in developing an iOS app as well. We were steered toward Visual Studio 2015 or later for this since none of us own a Mac. We do not have an iPhone and we are not interested in trying to actually sell or deploy the app officially. All we really need is a means to simulate the iOS app on a PC and demonstrate that the functionality is still there to control our device.
I have seen several posts stating the requirement of a Mac regardless to, at the least, handle conversions for any app development on a Windows machine. I have also found a couple posts with a potential work around that involved installing a Mac VM, though I am not sure if these are "legal" solutions or not? We do not have it in our project budget to purchase any Mac systems, OS, or cloud services to develop the app. I have only done light work on Macs unrelated to programming so I know very little about what is possible regarding VMs etc.
At this point I am looking for some clarity on whether there is an actual legitimate and legal means to simulate an iOS app using Visual Studio and a Windows PC only? In our case, we would need the simulation to be able to connect to our device wirelessly and control it. It is OK that the physical device would actually be a Windows laptop, the CS department just wants to see that we have developed software that could in theory work on an iOS device. We would be presenting our work in detail during weekly updates so the solution would need to be above the table in all regards.
I apologize if this is answered elsewhere. The options in Visual Studio and most of the guides online are pretty unclear about what you can and can't do specifically under the various project types. We didn't want to get too deep into development with C# only to hit an impassable wall and lose all that time. It seems Apple keeps everything under close guard so I was suspicious about the VM alternatives to having a Mac. Thanks in advance for you time!
You must have a Mac to develop iOS apps, either to act as a build server, or as your primary development machine. Even when using Xamarin, the build tools and iOS Simulator are provided by Apple and will only run on Apple's OS. You can only legally run Mac OS on Apple hardware.
Just to add to the previous (and correct answer imo) which states that you need a mac to legally build IOS apps.
You don't need a powerful mac in order to do the building. I've been using a mac mini as a build server for a year now with no major problems. I wouldn't want to do any actual development on this machine, but it's great for sitting in the corner and doing builds sent via visual studio.
You can still do all IOS Dev on windows with visual studio (connected to the mac for building). Additionally with the enterprise version of VS you can run the IOS simulator on the PC, but again it requires a connected Mac. Although I'm hoping that they will eventually bring this functionality back to community users.
In your specific (academic) case whether or not you do manage to get a mac for building, I would suggest looking at Xamarin Test Cloud for providing evidence that your software will work on a large number of devices.
I just tried to start a simple iOS project in Visual Studio, and it's saying that it cannot find a Mac Build Host. Most frustrating of all, the Xamarin site has no information at all on what a Mac Build Host is. I've popped up the command prompt in Windows and perfectly able to ping my Mac machine, so it's definitely viewable from Windows.
I'm guessing it's got to be some kind of a background process that needs to run on the Mac, but nowhere in the Xamarin site tells me where I can get it.
Help!
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P.S. I'm seriously having second thoughts about "cross platform" and "portability" and "reuse existing C# skills" jargon from Xamarin. It was way, way easier to get my first app started in simple Objective-C. Xamarin's approach feels like "we will ship you a broken product for $999, and you can help us figure out how to make this more marketable".
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Edit: After reading everyone's posts, I think I will just use the Xamarin Studio rather than take the Visual Studio approach. It seems like the less complicated approach in the long run for someone like me. Thanks to everyone for your post!
The Xamarin docs site has instructions on how to set up your Mac to act as an iOS build host for Visual Studio. I agree this isn't very clear from the "Connect to a Xamarin.iOS Build Host" dialog, so I've filed a bug.
You can also use Xamarin Studio to develop Xamarin.iOS apps on the Mac. It uses the same project/solution format as Visual Studio, so you can share the solution with VS.
The Mac Build Host is a process which runs on the network-hosted mac you need to connect to from your Windows machine, in order to perform the final app compile and build. I have just installed iOS for Visual Studio, and I had to create a Xamarin account that was associated with the VS install. Also, I had to install Xamarin.iOS on the Mac itself, instructions here:
http://docs.xamarin.com/guides/ios/getting_started/installation/mac/
What wasn't explained properly was that I then had to close VS, open it and create a new iOS project. At this point, a wizard was initiated which used the Xamarin Bonjour service to locate our networked mac and use that as the build host. All the bits came installed with the Xamarin installer, I just had to initiate them by opening up a project.
Obviously this will be different for you using Xamarin Studio, but have you tried creating a new a project to see if this initiates a wizard? Or do you need to install the iOS on your mac as well as Windows?
I have to admit, I'm not entirely sure what is meant by "Mac Build Host" either. I would expect to find something like that if you were using Visual Studio to build with, not Xamarin Studio.
My best guess is that perhaps Xamarin Studio doesn't "see" your iOS development tools setup somehow? Can you go into the Add-in Manager and see what version of iOS development you have in there?
Sorry you're having a bad time with it so far. I've been using it for awhile and it's been fantastic for me so far.
Do you have bonjour installed on your windows machine? This is required for Xamarin studio on windows to talk to your mac build host. Also you need to set up the relationship as follows.
Section 3.1
For anyone else who might have spent a few days going around in circles the answer above that states you need to close VS, open it and create a new iOS project holds the key.
Xamarin really needs to make this much clearer!
Andreas
One further thing I've noticed is that despite my setting the Xamarin Bonjour service to start automatically, it somehow gets reset to Manual. The Xamarin plugin opens the services MMC when I launch Visual Studio and open an existing project when this occurs.
During debugging it's all too easy to stop the VS debugger before the iOS Simulator on the Mac machine has been halted. It works fine if you click on the iPhone Simulator bottom button then command-Q to close the simulator. That drops VS out of debug.
If though VS is stopped before the simulator in some cases this kills the connection and it needs VS to be closed down and restarted. Once or twice it has corrupted the iOS simulator and it comes up with an empty iPhone graphic, instead of the default Photos, Contacts Settings etc icons. In that case close and reopen it and as you start the simulator click on the iOS Simulator menu, then Reset Contents and Settings. That purges the corrupt state and it's all ok after that.
Overall it works well enough to not get in the way of development but any improvements by the Xamarin team are welcomed.
Background
A few years ago I was developing for C#, WPF and Silverlight and then moved to developing for Android.
I've decided to give Windows phone a try, and install the newest Visual Studio Pro 2012 with its Windows phone sdk, together with the latest version of Windows - windows 8 pro.
I've created a new Windows phone project hoping I will start learning from a hello world project, and I've launched the emulator .
Some specs information
OS is windows 8 pro (final) . 64 bit CPU .
Visual Studio Pro 2012
Windows phone sdk 8
Connected by usb to a wireless D-Link device (DWA-140) .
The problem
Just as soon as I've started the emulator, a dialog came asking if I want to enable networking:
When I chose that I want, an error has appeared:
After selecting ok, the emulator crashed.
Knowing how to search for solutions on the internet, I've found a few (like here and here ) that suggested me to delete the network switches, create an internal switch, and whatnot.
The question
I don't understand what I'm doing wrong, and this is just my starting point. Can anyone please help me with this error and how to make the emulator work?
Please tell me the exact steps that I need to take.
EDIT: after uninstallation of anything related to VS and WP , i've re-installed them both and i still get the same errors.
Not only that , but when trying to create a new external switch (which some websites offered) , it showed me the next error :
How could such a basic feature of an emulator be missing out of the box ?
You might try a couple of things.
First, verify the network connection settings for the "vEthernet (Internal Ethernet Port Windows Phone Emulator Internal Switch)" adapter.
To do so, open "Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Connections" in Control Panel. Right click on the "vEthernet (Internal Ethernet Port Windows Phone Emulator Internal Switch)" adapter, and choose "Properties". Under "This connection uses the following items:" verify that ONLY the following options are selected:
Client for Microsoft Networks
QoS Packet Scheduler
File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks
Microsoft LLDP Protocol Driver
Link-Layer Topology Discovery Mapper I/O Driver
Link-Layer Topology Discovery Responder
Internet Protocol Version 6 (TCP/IPv6)
Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)
In addition, you may want to review the network adapter settings for the emulator image in "Hyper-V Manager"
Verify the network adapters that are shown are valid. You might try disabling some (like the adapters connected to the WiFi or Wired Ethernet adapters on your machine) if the adapters they are bound to are not currently enabled in the OS.
Let me know if that helps!
I suspect you may be running afoul of UAC. As you've noted, it's trying to create a virtual device. Doing so requires elevated permissions. If I were you I would either run VS2012 as Administrator or completely disable UAC until it's all installed and configured, and then you can turn UAC back on if you prefer it on. I think Allen's comment about manually creating a VM with the appropriate networking is astute and a worthwhile experiment, since it sidesteps the possible UAC issues.