How to run a Windows 10 IOT app locally?

Question

Is there a way to allow a normal Windows 10 installation to run Windows 10 IOT apps for debugging purposes? Right now when I set the architecture from ARM (Raspberry Pi 3) to x64 (Local machine) I get the following error message when I start a debug session:

I've read here that it's got something to do with 'embedded mode' but I can't find any information anywhere about it and the group policy does not appear to contain anything about enabling embedded mode...

Help is greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!

Nowicki

You need to run them on the device and do remote debugging. ms-iot.github.io/content/en-US/win10/AppDeployment.htm – Willi

@Willi that page also shows emulators – Ambassadress

@PanagiotisKanavos - I'm not sure I understand your comment. The link I provided doesn't discuss (or even have the word) emulators – Willi

Answer 1

It turns out that in addition to applying the policy, you also have to start the "Embedded Mode" windows service:

After that, everything works flawlessly. Just make sure to change ARM to x64 or x86.

Nowicki

Answer 2

In addition to enabling the Embedded mode service, and you find the service cannot be started manually, one will need to run a provisioned package on the OS other than Win IOT Core that will set AllowEmebeddedMode = 1.

1. Download the Windows 10 ADK
2. Install it
3. Build a package
4. Run the package

The embeddedMode service should run automatically.

More info here.

Orbital

Answer 3

I'm not sure what you mean with a Windows 10 IoT app if you don't mean an UWP app, and that should be able to run on your PC. Have you activated Developer Mode on your PC? If not, got to System → Update & security → For developers and choose Developer Mode. This will let you run all UWP apps, and not just those from the Windows Store.

Snakeroot

A Windows 10 IoT app is a separate project type. It has nothing to do with Developer Mode. The CPU is different (ARM) so there is no way to run it locally outside an emulator – Ambassadress

Ah, is it the Background Application we are talking about? I just created such a project and got a similar error. However mine was in Swedish (my language for Windows) and it makes absolutely no sence. – Snakeroot

Unless the OP confused the terms . Other project types won't run on Windows 10 IoT on RaspberryPi though – Ambassadress

Don't think so, I got a similar error now when testing. – Snakeroot

UWP will definitely run on Windows 10 IoT core. In MS own Hello World-example for W10 IoT Core they are using a UWP-project: ms-iot.github.io/content/en-US/win10/samples/HelloWorld.htm – Snakeroot

The application runs on Raspberry Pi 2s and 3s. However, in order to test a communication scenario, I need to bypass the SSL validation for a remote machine. Usually I accomplish this by running the server and the client on the same machine and use the IIS generated 'localhost' certificate. I do need to run the IOT UWP Background app on a local machine. – Nowicki

The application should be possible to run locally. Have you tried this: support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2750770 ? What version of Windows are you using? – Snakeroot

@PanagiotisKanavo Developer Mode is needed to sideload a UWP app locally. UWP-Apps (Headed apps) do run on Raspberrys! As the headless apps do as well. The only "special kind" for IoT is the headless template (background task), but its also a UWP App Template. – Weinman