Corona Cards Installation failed

ingemar · July 6, 2014, 10:40pm

Can’t install Corona Cards. Doesn’t seem to support VS Express 2013 for Windows.

I’m running 64-bit Windows 8.1 Pro. Could 64-bit be a problem?

I get the following in the log:

14/07/06 18:50:40 - Microsoft VSIX Installer

14/07/06 18:50:40 - -------------------------------------------

14/07/06 18:50:40 - Initializing Install…

14/07/06 18:50:41 - Extension Details…

14/07/06 18:50:41 - Identifier : CoronaLabs.Corona.Cards.WindowsPhone.a5ff5638-698f-4bcc-81b8-6737246a6046

14/07/06 18:50:41 - Name : CoronaCards for Windows Phone

14/07/06 18:50:41 - Author : Corona Labs Inc.

14/07/06 18:50:41 - Version : 14.0.2357.0

14/07/06 18:50:41 - Description : Provides Windows Phone project templates for developing apps using the Corona framework.

14/07/06 18:50:41 - Locale : en-US

14/07/06 18:50:41 - MoreInfoURL : http://www.coronalabs.com/

14/07/06 18:50:41 - InstalledByMSI : False

14/07/06 18:50:41 - SupportedFrameworkVersionRange : [4.5,)

14/07/06 18:50:41 -

14/07/06 18:50:41 - SignedBy : Corona Labs Inc.

14/07/06 18:50:41 - Certificate Info : [Subject]

CN=Corona Labs Inc., O=Corona Labs Inc., L=Palo Alto, S=California, C=US

[Issuer]

CN=DigiCert Assured ID Code Signing CA-1, OU=www.digicert.com, O=DigiCert Inc, C=US

[Serial Number]

0F7705C4A07A2578BFED5AEC3C35D902

[Not Before]

14/06/10 09:00:00

[Not After]

15/06/15 21:00:00

[Thumbprint]

288E9FF2A4E7CC45F201259159D9263879E68B9F

14/07/06 18:50:41 - Supported Products :

14/07/06 18:50:41 - Microsoft.VisualStudio.VPDExpress

14/07/06 18:50:41 - Version : [11.0,13.0)

14/07/06 18:50:41 - Microsoft.VisualStudio.Pro

14/07/06 18:50:41 - Version : [11.0,13.0)

14/07/06 18:50:41 - Microsoft.VisualStudio.Premium

14/07/06 18:50:41 - Version : [11.0,13.0)

14/07/06 18:50:41 - Microsoft.VisualStudio.Ultimate

14/07/06 18:50:41 - Version : [11.0,13.0)

14/07/06 18:50:41 -

14/07/06 18:50:41 - References :

14/07/06 18:50:41 - -------------------------------------------------------

14/07/06 18:50:41 - Identifier : CoronaLabs.Corona.Framework.WindowsPhone.36706714-9F1F-4691-969C-377BCFEA598A

14/07/06 18:50:41 - Name : Corona Framework for Windows Phone

14/07/06 18:50:41 - Version : [14.0.2357.0]

14/07/06 18:50:41 - MoreInfoURL :

14/07/06 18:50:41 - Nested : Yes

14/07/06 18:50:41 -

14/07/06 18:50:41 - Searching for applicable products…

14/07/06 18:50:41 - Found installed product - Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows

14/07/06 18:50:41 - Found installed product - Global Location

14/07/06 18:50:41 - VSIXInstaller.NoApplicableSKUsException: This extension is not installable on any currently installed products.

at VSIXInstaller.App.InitializeInstall()

at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.InnerInvoke()

at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Execute()

whammy · July 6, 2014, 11:42pm

http://forums.coronalabs.com/topic/49185-cant-install-corona-cards-into-visual-studio/

No, it’s because Visual Express 2013 doesn’t support 3rd party extensions.

ingemar · July 6, 2014, 11:49pm

OK.

But in that case the installation docs are incorrect:

System Requirements

Minimum Desktop Operating System Supported for Development:

Windows 8.1 (Pro version needed for Windows Phone emulator support)

Visual Studio Versions Supported:

Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Phone 8

Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows

Visual Studio Professional 2013 (…or better)

Windows Phone Operating Systems Supported:

8.0

8.1

ingemar · July 7, 2014, 7:02am

OK. Got it working with VS Express 2012

whammy · July 7, 2014, 9:39am

Cool, are you able to deploy for WP8.1 or 8.0 only?

ingemar · July 7, 2014, 10:10am

From what I can see, 8.0 only.

Unfortunately it looks like you can’t use Visual Studio 2012 for building apps targeting Windows Phone 8.1.

Windows Phone 8.1 SDK support was included only in Visual Studio 2013 starting from Update 2.

Bummer.

Lerg · July 7, 2014, 6:27pm

I think you are reading it wrong. Windows 8.0 apps should run fine on a Windows 8.1 device because of backward compatibility. And about installing into VS 2013 - read my topic, Joshua explained why it is so.

Joshua_Quick · July 7, 2014, 6:41pm

Lerg is correct. Windows Phone 8.0 apps run on 8.1 devices.

When you build for Windows Phone 8.0 in Visual Studio, then it’ll create a *.xap file.

When you build for Windows Phone 8.1 in Visual Studio, then it’ll create an *.appx file.

They’re totally different app binaries. The *.appx file is what Windows 8 Metro and tablets support. Microsoft recently added *.appx support to Windows Phone this year, which is now Microsoft’s equivalent to a universal binary. In the past, you had to build your apps completely different for Windows phones and tablets. Corona Labs is supporting *.xap files first because Windows Phone 8.0 is still the dominant version.

Joshua_Quick · July 7, 2014, 6:44pm

Also, I’ll dig into why Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows isn’t working later.

That’s a fairly new version of Visual Studio that has received very little testing on our end. There is probably a specific setting that we’re missing in our vsix file to allow it to work.

Our vsix file definitely works with the other 2 Visual Studio versions mentioned in our requirements list.

whammy · July 7, 2014, 6:53pm

I guess you are right about the backwards compatibility, BUT it was the first thing I was trying to do - to deploy a 8.0 solution from Visual Express 2012 to the WP8.1 device. There was no option to choose for 8.1 device nor 8.1 emulator. That’s why I had to install Visual Studio 2013 trial.

Joshua_Quick · July 7, 2014, 7:05pm

I’ll look into that.

In the meantime, you should be able to deploy your xap file via Microsoft’s “Application Deployment” desktop application.

Lerg · July 7, 2014, 8:29pm

I had no troubles deploying the hello world app on my 8.1 device - I just connected it with USB and hit “Deploy”.

whammy · July 7, 2014, 9:51pm

Hmm, so maybe I installed a different version. I actually installed Visual Express 2013 first and then Windows Phone SDK 8.0 for 8.0 support. And so with that SDK 8.0 I got Visual Express 2012 installed automatically as well - this version I tried and it couldn’t deploy to 8.1. But maybe I should have updated it first, I don’t know. I already removed it to install Visual Studio 2013 trial. Will check it out again.

Lerg · July 7, 2014, 10:40pm

Try uninstalling everything and then installing “Windows Phone 8.0 SDK”, that will download and install VS 2012 as well.

whammy · July 8, 2014, 6:09am

I’ll do that but for now I’ll stick to the working trial. Thanks anyway.

Rob5 · July 29, 2014, 7:18pm

Hello. I have also had similar issues but after various stages of faffing around including uninstalling all, re installing , enabling virtual hardware on bios. I cant run the emulator as its saying I am missing Windows 8.0 Professional. I have 8.1 and its not Pro (came with the laptop) so I cannot enable Hyper V.

Joshua_Quick · July 29, 2014, 7:37pm

Right. You can only run the WP8 emulator on a Windows 8.1 “Pro” operating system, not the “Home” version. This is because the Pro version comes with Hyper-V, which is the virtual machine software the emulator runs in.

Rob5 · July 29, 2014, 8:50pm

Yeah I should have read that bit! Well Im building for device instead. I have Hello World working. But no luck in any of my existing projects yet. The last one just froze and couldnt shut down phone. Now I just need to find why / what is in my projects that perhaps arent quite compatible

Rob5 · July 29, 2014, 9:03pm

Another one frozen. And phone wont turn off now. Is there a place of known issues. IE perhaps I Cant use width = display.pixelWidth, height = display.pixelHeight, in config? Is there anywhere that will tell me why my phone has completely frozen and cannot shutdown. I cant see an error report anywhere? Im new to Visual Studio

Joshua_Quick · July 29, 2014, 9:05pm

Well, testing on actual devices is always best.

If your app isn’t running, then it’s probably using features that are not supported on WP8 yet. If you switch your project’s debugger to “Native”, then you can see some of the Lua runtime errors that may be occurring. Although I’ve heard some reports that not all Lua errors are being reported, such as failure to require in a Lua library that’s not supported yet. We’re still working on improving the error reporting.

To enable native debugging, you’ll need to do the following in Visual Studio:

Right click on your application project in Visual Studio.
Select “Properties” from the popup menu.
Select the “Debug” tab on the left.
Go to the drop-down box under “Debugger Type\UI Task” and select “Native Only”.
Run your application in debug mode.