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Hello,
I can't deploy my UWP app to my Xbox One. This is the error message I get:
Error: Unable to connect to the Microsoft Visual Studio Remote Debugger named 'XboxOne'. The Visual Studio 2022 Remote Debugger (MSVSMON.EXE) does not appear to be running on the remote computer. This may be because a firewall is preventing communication to the remote computer. Please see Help for assistance on configuring remote debugging.
I started the Xbox in Dev mode and I am able to deploy my uwp package via the web portal but can't directly from Visual Studio.
Please help me because it pretty hard to check everything by creating a package and upload to the Xbox via web browser.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Henrik
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Could you please follow the steps from this document to see if it works: Debug UWP apps on remote machines from Visual Studio?
I have checked and all steps already done what is mentioned in the Prerequisites, Configure a Visual Studio project for remote debugging and Configure a C# or Visual Basic project for remote debugging section.
However I can't install or copy msvsmon.exe to the Xbox One, or can I? I think the Download and install the Remote Tools for Visual Studio section is not valid for Xbox One.
When the Remote Connections dialog box, have you tried to use the IP address of the Xbox as the location?
@Henrik Barna Any updates about this?
I can check it tomorrow. Thanks for your patience.
Sure, please let me know if you have check that.
I tried with the IP address, same error... The Visual Studio 2022 Remote Debugger (MSVSMON.EXE) does not appear to be running on the remote computer.
That's interesting. Here are my steps: 1) choose Remote Machine when you are trying to run your app. 2) The Remote Connections window will be popped up. In the Manually configuration, I'll fill in the IP address of the Xbox and click select. 3) there will be a dialog popup when connecting that asks for a Pin code from the Xbox. You could get that Pin code from Xbox Dev mode. After all of these are done, the app is running on Xbox from Visual Studio.
I have tried every steps you mentioned without any success. If I choose Remote machine it can auto detect Xbox. Whether I choose the auto detected one or manually enter the IP address I get the same error message (The Visual Studio 2022 Remote Debugger (MSVSMON.EXE) does not appear to be running on the remote computer.)
It is weird that there is no pop up dialog asking for Pin code.
Besides, I tried to reset my console, reactivate without any luck.
That's interesting. I'll try to ask the team about this via our internal channel. There might be some time delay.
Could you please double-check if the IP address of Xbox is correct? And you've selected the Universal (Unencrypted Protocol) in the Authentication Mode?
Checked, IP address is correct and the authentication mode is universal.
Could you please enable diagnostic MSBuild output and share the output from VS 2022 when it attempts to deploy to their console here?
I uploaded the output file to OneDrive. Link: https://1drv.ms/t/s!Av95pYAM7IZNt_lylzDKtXvcHIPNTA?e=6SotgP
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Hi Henrik, any luck with it?
I've faced the same issue and looking for a solution. It's my very first experience, appreciate any help.
Thanks, Dmytro
I have solved the same issue by changing the target version in "Application Settings" from "Windows 11" to "Windows 10, version 2004" 
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I have the exact same issue and it wasnt fixed by changing the application settings.
Oddly enough, I can use a different windows machine to connect using VS 2022 to the same xbox and it works fine, but my main workstation has this problem...
Full day of banging my head against the wall...
Created a new project from scratch and it worked.
So the project I tried to get to deploy on the Xbox decided to work after I cleaned everything out that wasnt built by Visual Studio. Could be something in the .vs folder? or bin/obj?
But mine works now.
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I have the same problem, tried restarting the project completely fresh, still won't deploy.
Checked build and debug properties several times, set to x64, remote machine IP address matches Xbox Series S device. The device is detected but when I try to deploy it fails with the error "The Visual Studio 2022 Remote Debugger (MSVSMON.EXE) does not appear to be running on the remote computer".
I have tried setting target version to Windows 10, version 2004 and it still fails.
Any ideas?
I have solved the same issue by changing the target version in "Application Settings"
from "Windows 11" to "Windows 10, version 2004".
Though it works, it still didn't ask for Pin :)
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I had experienced the exact same symptoms when trying to connect and debug a UWP app on xbox. It turned out that it was the Windows firewall which caused the issue. After disabling "Windows Defender Firewall with Advanced Security" it finally worked. It's really unfortunate that the error doesn't give a useful hint on the issues. At least there's some documentation telling which ports need to be allowed: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/configure-the-windows-firewall-for-remote-debugging?view=vs-2022 BTW, I couldn't reproduce any dependency on the target version. It's still working for me with the target Windows version set to "Windows 11 Build 22000"