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[BotDuino]

I have used my Netduino for a variety of purposes, and I decided to hook up an LCD screen. I downloaded the Micro Liquid Crystal Library, and found it would not deploy. I then updated my netduino (firmware and bootloader) to the latest version along with the SDK. I then upgraded Micro Liquid Crystal to version 4.2, but I am still getting an error. This is what happens, When I deploy the project, it builds, and deploys, but when it goes to deploy a popup comes up. The popup says "TinyCLR Error" in the title bar and the message reads, "The project must have either an output type of 'Console Application', or an output type of 'Class Library' and the start action set to a valid .NET MicroFramework application" When I click OK the box goes away, in the bottom right (in the status bar) it says "Deploy Succeeded", but it obviously has not succeeded. I have tried setting the output type to both "Console Application" and "Class Library", but it still fails. No other project seems to do this. Any help is greatly appreciated, BotDuino

[smarcus3]

I use the micro library on a 4.2 N+, but don't get any errors after I rebuilt the reference. If you want I can post my project and / or refernce dll if that will help. Let me know.

[peterfjorgensen]

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This is what happens,
When I deploy the project, it builds, and deploys, but when it goes to deploy a popup comes up.
The popup says "TinyCLR Error" in the title bar and the message reads,
"The project must have either an output type of 'Console Application', or an output type of 'Class Library' and the start action set to a valid .NET MicroFramework application"
...

Hi,

To me it sounds as if you have not selected the main project in Visual Studio to be the startup project. The startup project is the one that contains your Main method. Look in the Solution Explorer panel and rightclick on your main project and select the "Set as StartUp Project".

Hope it helps.

Peter

[BotDuino]

Thanks for the help, I will try changing the startup project to see if that fixes it.

[Thomas Maynard]

it sounds as if you have not selected the main project in Visual Studio to be the startup project. The startup project is the one that contains your Main method. Look in the Solution Explorer panel and rightclick on your main project and select the "Set as StartUp Project".

 

Thank you, thank you, thank you!  I have been fighting this nasty problem for at least a week: I'm a VSU2013 and NETMF noob, but I started with C# back when it first appeared back in 2000.

 

You can't believe how frustrating this has been for me.  I owe you a beer, for sure.

 

P.S. I also realize that this thread has been dormant for almost two years, but it still pulled my butt out of the fire.