After reading Scott Hansleman’s post about Console2 I decided to give it a try full time. Overall I have to say I am very impressed and have no intention on switching back. It really is an impressive application, so if you are interested in trying something different, go to Scott’s post and follow his directions on setting it up.

As a long time mysysgit user for all my Git source control needs, I decided to find out if I could marry the two together to create a nice intersection between Console2 and msysgit’s Bash client.  And after a bit of searching and stumbling on my own post about setting up the bash client in Visual Studio, I answered my own question on how to set it up for Console2.  Here is what I cam up with:

• Title: Git Bash
• Icon: C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\etc\git.ico
• Shell: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe /c “”C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\sh.exe” –login -i”

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As I was developing my first Metro App today I came upon this weird error.

Error	1	Error : DEP0600 : The following unexpected error occurred during deployment: 
Illegal characters in path.
   at System.IO.Path.CheckInvalidPathChars(String path, Boolean checkAdditional)
   at System.IO.Path.Combine(String path1, String path2)
   at Microsoft.VisualStudio.ImmersiveProjectServices.Shared.AppxLayoutManager.CheckPackageLayoutState(DeployPackageName deployPackageName, String location)
   at Microsoft.VisualStudio.ImmersiveProjectServices.Shared.LocalDeployJob.GetLayoutState(DeployPackageName deployName, Boolean hasFrameworkDependencies)
   at Microsoft.VisualStudio.ImmersiveProjectServices.Shared.RegisterAppxLayout.Start(Boolean forceNewLayout, Boolean forceRegistration, NetworkLoopbackState desiredNetworkLoopbackState, Boolean refreshLayoutOnly, String& packageMoniker, String& firstUserAppID, Exception& deployException)

Not knowing what to do, because the error is vague and cryptic. I decided to throw a hail mary pass and remove the application I was developing from the start menu. And lo and behold this was the problem. I know this is still a beta framework and everything, but can the Windows team please throw us a bone and put in exceptions that actually mean something.

tl;dr

Just uninstall the application you are developing from the start menu.