Today without any reason VisualStudio was not able to connect with the WP7 device. When I selected “deploy solution” I received the following error:
------ Deploy started: Project: ... Deploying D:\MyProjects2010\... Deployment of application to device failed. This operation returned because the timeout period expired. ========== Build: 2 succeeded or up-to-date, 0 failed, 0 skipped ========== ========== Deploy: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 skipped ==========
------ Deploy started: Project: ...
Deploying D:\MyProjects2010\...
Deployment of application to device failed.
This operation returned because the timeout period expired.
========== Build: 2 succeeded or up-to-date, 0 failed, 0 skipped ==========
========== Deploy: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 skipped ==========
Zune client was on.
Zune client seen the device.
Device was dev-unlocked.
Everything worked fine for weeks…
I don’t know why it happened, but I resolved doing the following steps: