Visual Studio 2012 Crashes while deploying windows phone application

Question

I am developing a windows phone application and trying to deploy it on Emulator as well as Actual device, whenever I hit debug button Visual Studio crashes and restarts. I also tried o run it with admin privileges.

I have checked event logs and the error is in Phone tools/conman2.dll

and exception is as below:

Log Name: Application Application: devenv.exe Framework Version: v4.0.30319 Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception. Exception Info: System.AccessViolationException Stack:
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.DeviceConnectivity.Interop.ConManServerClass.ConnectDevice() at Microsoft.SmartDevice.Connectivity.Device.Connect() at Microsoft.SmartDevice.Connectivity.Wrapper.ConnectivityWrapper11.CreateConnectedDeviceInstance(Microsoft.SmartDevice.Connectivity.Device) at Microsoft.SmartDevice.MultiTargeting.Connectivity.ConnectableDevice.Connect() at Microsoft.VisualStudio.CommonProject.SmartDevice.Deploy.DeployTask.Execute() at Microsoft.VisualStudio.SmartDevice.ProjectSystem.SilverlightMobileVSProjectFlavorCfg.Deploy(System.Object) at System.Threading.QueueUserWorkItemCallback.WaitCallback_Context(System.Object) at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object, Boolean) at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object, Boolean) at System.Threading.QueueUserWorkItemCallback.System.Threading.IThreadPoolWorkItem.ExecuteWorkItem() at System.Threading.ThreadPoolWorkQueue.Dispatch() at System.Threading._ThreadPoolWaitCallback.PerformWaitCallback()

I am not able to fix the problem I also tried to run devenv.exe /resetuserdata but no help.

Am I missing on any configuration?

Answer 1

I think that you have to run the application in release mode whenever you want to deploy it in a real device. Look at this video in contains a good explanation http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Phone-8-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners/Part-8-Understanding-Compilation-and-Deployment