Windows Phone 7 Dev Deployment
Recently, I’ve been playing around with the Windows Phone 7 Developer experience. Quick tip: I tried to deploy my application to the phone, and got an error: “Zune software is not launched. Retry after making sure that Zune software is launched.” This wasn’t particularly helpful for me since I did have the software launched, and my phone was connected through wireless sync (didn’t remember this at the time).
A quick search turned up nothing, and restarting the client didn’t help. But then I remembered my setup and plugged my phone straight into the USB port and then had no problems.
Thinking about it, I wouldn’t expect this scenario to work, but there was no indication of this provided to me as a devt.
A couple of takeaways as a tester and geek:
1. Bad error messages cause customers a lot of pain. Fighting for these in triage is probably worth your time.
2. Wired > Wireless, even in 2011 :)