{"id":6779,"date":"2012-11-01T16:30:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T15:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=6779"},"modified":"2012-11-01T16:30:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T15:30:55","slug":"how-to-test-and-debug-an-app-on-surface-rt-in-a-hotel-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/6779-how-to-test-and-debug-an-app-on-surface-rt-in-a-hotel-room.html","title":{"rendered":"How to test and debug an app on Surface RT in a hotel room"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wanted to test an app on Surface RT this morning, though I am out of the office with just a Samsung Slate (has Visual Studio), the Surface, and hotel wi-fi.<\/p>\n

You can do remote debugging on Surface RT as explained here<\/a>, however you need a private network.<\/p>\n

I set up an ad-hoc network from the Samsung Slate as described here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Open an elevated command prompt<\/p>\n

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netsh wlan show drivers<\/p>\n

netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid="wireless name" key="password"<\/p>\n

netsh wlan start hostednetwork<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This allowed me to connect the Surface RT to a private network with the Slate.<\/p>\n

Next, I needed to download and install the remote debugging tools for ARM from here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I ran the remote debugger and was able to connect from Visual Studio on the Slate, but ran into a small issue. I needed a developer license for the Surface, but while on the private network it was not on the internet. When the remote debugger prompted to install a developer license, it could not retrieve it.<\/p>\n

The solution was to disconnect, connect to the internet, then install the developer license using PowerShell. Run show-windowsdeveloperlicenseregistration from an elevated PowerShell window.<\/p>\n

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Then I returned to the private network and was able to launch my beautifully designed test app:<\/p>\n

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Note that for the actual test I did not run the app attached to Visual Studio. Rather, I deployed in release mode and then ran separately, to avoid the slowdown from the debugger. Once deployed, the test app remains in the Start screen for launching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wanted to test an app on Surface RT this morning, though I am out of the office with just a Samsung Slate (has Visual Studio), the Surface, and hotel wi-fi. You can do remote debugging on Surface RT as explained here, however you need a private network. I set up an ad-hoc network from … Continue reading How to test and debug an app on Surface RT in a hotel room<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,55,80,94,97],"tags":[849,882,999],"class_list":["post-6779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net","category-microsoft","category-software-development","category-visual-studio","category-windows","tag-software-development","tag-surface-rt","tag-windows-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}