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How to fix "Please ensure that target device has developer mode enabled" error in Hololens Emulator


The problem that I have is that after I have built my Unity project using Microsoft's Mixed Reality Toolkit and the Windows SDK 10.0.18362.0 I try to deploy it using the Hololens 2 emulator (version: 10.0.18362.1019). The result is that even though the emulator opens, my Unity application does not get deployed and the following error is being shown in Visual Studio's error list:

Please ensure that target device has developer mode enabled. Could not obtain a developer license on 192.168.9.57 due to error 80004005

I found several articles online that had the same problem like me, and they either referred to resetting the HoloLens device (which I do not need to do, since it is an emulator) or enabling the Developer Mode on the host machine (in my case a fully updated Windows 10 Enterprise Edition computer), which I already have. Nevertheless the error persists.

I just hope that there will be a way to get rid of this error and manage to deploy my Unity application onto the HoloLens emulator.


Solution

  • It seems that the solution is very simple. If you actually run Visual Studio as an Administrator the application is successfully deployed onto the emulator.