Well well well, 3 holes in the ground

I have been fighting my Bee trying to update the firmware to the latest and greatest.
I had been a good boy and gone thru all the correct (i assume :smiley: ) steps…

[ol]Uninstall all SDK’s etc
Install latest and greatest
STDFU seemed to work fine
Fails on MFDeploy on verifying signature [/ol]

This has been done on the same Lappie that i have been using without issue…
Tried different cables ports, powered hubs etc without any joy… Boo…
Seems other people have had the same problem http://www.tinyclr.com/forum/topic?id=8533

New install on Win 8 RTM, Visual Studio 2010 and the SDK’s and updates fine!

To me it looks like a USB issue…

On a further note, i cannot deploy or debug to the Bee on my usual setup just gives the usual shitty hardware error.
Fresh Win8 install is fine…

@ Justin - There way too many logic trees one could follow to try and solve these issues, especially on a dev machine that has a history of installs/uninstalls/hacks. I’ve taken to using a VM (VMware Workstation rocks) and using snapshots with both NETMF 4.1 and 4.2 dev environments. VMs don’t always behave with the hardware, but I’m at least always starting with a clean image.

Did you install Enterprise, pro or regular?

@ twospoons - Win8 RTM Pro, VS 2010 Ultimate - all good…

@ ransomhall - indeed - I should know better and I do use a lot of VM’s for all our language testing…so will follow your lead in future.