Visual studio the project needs to be deployed before it can be started

Question

When starting to test the application on Windows Phone (even a blank app) on emulator or device, this error is poping out "The project needs to be deployed before it can be started". "verify the project is selected to be deployed in the solution configuration manager, or depoly it explicitly by clicking one of the deploy commands in the Build menu" The emulator will be started & run successfully, still no luck in deploying app on emulator.

2>Error: The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E)

Answer 1

Probably the reason for this is that your Build and Deploy configurations aren't enabled. To enable these configurations. Do these steps:

Step 1: Open the Configuration Manager by clicking the active solution configuration. The default is <Debug>:

Step 2: Enable the Build and Deploy configurations by checking the boxes for Any CPU.

After this, you can try running you app. It should be working properly.

Hope this helps!