Error : DEP6200 : Bootstrapping 'Device' failed. Device cannot be found

Question

I\'ve read every StackOverflow that I could find on this issue, but I still can\'t work it out.

I\'m trying to deploy an app to actual device (NOT emulator)

Answer 1

Finally managed to find a solution to this illusive bug.

It seems that if I didn't have the Windows Phone 8.1 Tools installed I couldn't build to an ARM device (not even Windows 10 Mobile).

So my step to solve this was: Go to Control Panel -> Programs and Features -> Microsoft Visual Studio ... 2015 -> Modify. And then select the Windows Phone 8.1 Tools.

Pretty pissed that one can't get a reasonable error message when things like this is missing.