Error saving Galileo Wiring App in Visual Studio

Last week I received my Intel Galileo board (windowsondevices.com) and I started playing with developing for it yesterday. I created a first test project, but it didn’t run. Visual Studio couldn’t find the Arduino header file, which was probably due to a missing NuGet package (the Galileo C++ SDK). I tried to save the project, because you need to before you can manage NuGet packages, but to no avail. Visual Studio served me a ‘The operation could not be completed’ error without any additional information.][2]

A while ago I posted about some handy settings in Visual Studio like Zero-impact projects & Cutting/copying empty lines. Turns out that the Windows for IoT project template does some extra things upon creation. And with the ‘Save new projects when created’ checkbox unchecked, it’s not able to do that. Rendering the project unsaveable…

The solution #

It’s as easy as it is ugly to have to do this: simply check the checkbox in ‘Save new projects when created’ before creating your Windows for IoT project. Then you’re good to go…!

Hope this helps