RPi2 PsSession: "Command 'iotstartup' cannot be found" - powershell

I am in the process of deploying a Windows Universal App to my Raspberry Pi 2.
I am following a very handy guide published here.
Everything's fine but I get a peculiar warning when trying to run the iotstartup command after having established the PsSession.
If I simply press return again, the message disappears and the command seems to work fine...
Am I doing something wrong here? Is it a known powershell thing, or has something gone awry on my device? (If it's of any significance, I had to re-flash the OS once or twice in order to get anything to deploy remotely).
I hope it's not my device; but I would be interested to hear of any clarification on this sort of issue.

iotstartup as setcomputername are executables. Use the invoke command, see this article.
& iotstartup list
will do.

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Twincat Activate Configuration error 0x1028 - unable to activate

I am a beginner in Twincat and is trying to run a sample program on my system(not on target).
I did all the steps mentioned here and did get the system up and running my sample code once. However, when I tried to run it again after a system restart, I get an error message.
I tried creating a new empty solution and another one with test code, both of them throws the same error code. Also, when I click on the green Restart TwinCat system button, I get the following error.
How do I solve this?
You need to enable AMD-V in your BIOS.
The procedure is explained here:
https://youtu.be/P9uUgT8EhUM?t=1029
(This is done for an Intel system, while you seem to have an AMD system, but it's the same procedure).
Also make sure to run this file in CMD (as Administrator):
C:\TwinCAT\3.1\System\win8settick.bat
And then reboot your computer.
If this doesn't do the trick, then do core isolation and run your TwinCAT task on an isolated core. Maybe that was what you were doing before but not now? It's described quite well in this video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=q7iRvDuAOFQ

service fabric local cluster exception from 0x80071BFF

I created a solution with a few applications, and it worked perfectly. But a day later when I was about to debug the solution again, it suddenly cannot start.
I did have firewall and AV disabled, both when it worked and later when it didn't work.
It works fine when deployed to azure, but not locally.
The error thrown is:
Exception from HRESULT: 0x80071BFF
at System.Fabric.Interop.NativeRuntime.FabricGetNodeContext()
at System.Fabric.FabricRuntime.NativeFabricRuntimeFactory.GetNodeContextHelper()
at System.Fabric.Interop.Utility.WrapNativeSyncInvoke[TResult](Func`1 func, String functionTag, String functionArgs)
A related post register-servicefabricapplicationtype-on-a-secure-cluster-always-times-out
describes a similar thing.
However, I get this while debugging locally and with smallest possible application: I even just created 1 application, 1 actor, did no changes, hit F5 and I get this error.
So, I looked at service-fabric-troubleshoot-local-cluster-setup and while I also get the TypeInitializationException, the solution of:
Your path variable was not correctly set during installation. Please sign out of Windows and sign back in. This will fully refresh your path.
did not work at all.
Nothing else on that page seemed to be related.
Now I begin to feel that I've hit the end of what key words I can google, and still I have no idea what to do.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
EDIT:
I've tried starting via cluster manager and apps can still not start.
I've removed apps, removed cluster, tried with new solutions, over and over. The only thing I haven't tried is reinstalling SDK and VS. I'm a bit reluctant to reinstall VS, so I'd hope to find some clues before resorting to that.
UPDATE1:
Now I reinstalled Service Fabric v. 5.3.311.9590, SDK and Tools.
Created a solution, added a stateless service. Hit F5. The exact same error is thrown.
I will now try to install on another machine with mostly the same configuration.
UPDATE2:
Installed the SDK on an identical VM, Win10, also with VS2015 Update 3. Created solution, added 1 actor, hit F5 and also on this macchine the exact error is thrown.
I tried Debug without debugging (as mentioned here) to attach later. But the application never starts. It is failed. This is the same on both the machines.
It all worked and from one day to the other it doesn't, and it's a problem that I cannot find anywhere on the net. What can this be? I found that the security updates from windows was made about the same date this happened...
I will uninstall and try again.
UPDATE3:
Uninstalling security update was not possible, but I could hide a couple of other updates. To no luck though.
From here I found this https://github.com/Azure/service-fabric-issues/issues/15 and realised I actually was very low on diskspace, and so I increased it (hyper-v manager) to 20 gigs free. But no, still the same problem.

Windows 8 Simulator command line interface

I know VS2012 has the ability to start the Windows Simulator right out of the editor.
What I want/need is to be able to 'tell the simulator' to start a specific app. So let's say I have a previously compiled (Metro) app, it could be C# or HTML, and I want to tell the Simulator to Start and run my specific app. Is that possible?
Let's say I'm also in a Windows 7 box, and I want to try it out. I know I can't do that on the Win7 box so I thought I would connect to a Windows8 VM via Remote Destop and either start the simulator there to see how my app works, or as mentioned before, start the simulator with my app.
So is that all possible? How would I do it? Does anybody can think of a better idea to achieve that? Say powershell to send my app to the Win8 machine?
You can find the Simulator executable at ...
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Simulator\11.0
Looking at Windows.Simulator.exe with ILSpy, however, it appears that the only startup command it looks for is /Minimized. If you check out OnStartup, it contains the code ...
if (App.ParseStartAsMinimized(e.Args))
{
window.WindowState = WindowState.Minimized;
}
That's the only one I could find. I also didn't find a place where it tried to access its configuration file. It does reference System.Configuration, however, so maybe some additional detective work is warranted.

Runtime Error in Visual Simulation Environment - Microsoft Robotics Studio

I am using Microsoft Robotics Studio for a school project and I am getting a strange error when I try to run the Visual Simulation Environment. It was working fine until yesterday and then suddenly it gave me a runtime error saying "Illegal command line arguments... do not use VPLHost directly, use dsshost instead to run a manifest" But I am only clicking on Run in VPL/DSS Manifest editor.
I am running MRDS as administrator and I even tried re-installing MRDS but it is still showing the same MS VPL Runtime error. I tried to search online, but cannot find any suitable solution.
I already tried running the existing samples, I.e. Urban Environment, Multiple Simulated Robots etc. but it still gives me the same error. The strange thing is that it was working perfectly one minute, and then started giving me this error message the next minute, when I had not changed anything in between. In fact, I had wanted to change something in my manifest, so I closed the running VPL application, closed VPL and opened DSS manifest editor, and ran my manifest and that is when I got this error.
What is going wrong? Is some MRDS script using vplhost32.exe instead of dsshost? If so, then where and how do I change it?
I tried running the urban envrionment manifest from the command prompt and Using DSSHost32 directly. This time, it didn't give me a runtime error but an intiialization error. I tried changing port numbers but it still doesn't work. I have deleted many files from my computer to free space (JIC) and it still doesn't work. The window just doesn't open even when I hover over it in Windows 7.
The error message looks like this: Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted."
This was even after I checked netstat for free ports and tried but I get this error message. Its either this one or the "Don't use VPLHost directly" if I run it through VPL or DSS Manifest Editor.
Could it be that some external services are interfering with DSSHost/VPLHost? Are there any such services which I could try killing? ANY help/suggestion would help right now as my project is due Thursday and this is a really unfortunate time for it to be acting up like this.
Does the problem reproduce after logging off & logging back on? It's likely that you had a process hanging around that you weren't aware of. Logging off should shut down any processes you personally started.
I don't know the solution of your problem, but it would be better that you post your question on the link below:
http://p2p.wrox.com/book-professional-microsoft-robotics-studio-isbn-978-0-470-14107-6-410/
[official forum for the book : Professional Microsoft Robotics Studio], i hope you will shortly get reply there,
The other option is to post your question on the msdn forum,
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/robotics
hope this would help....

build failed executing nant

I've got a nant build script (.86 beta) and it is telling me this:
BUILD FAILED
Failed to initialize the 'Microsoft
.Net Framework 2.0' target
framework.
The process cannot access the file
'C:\Users\cconway\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp25E3.tmp'
because it is being used by another
process.
This file does not even exist on my machine. Does anyone know the cause of this? Rebooting seems to allow me to run the script once successfully, but every time after that I get this message (though the name of the tmp file changes per reboot).
Thanks!
Are there any third-party tasks which might leave temp files open or keep running in the background, thus leaving file locked?
Maybe try sysinternals process monitor which will allow you to see the process which has the handle on this file.
Also, make sure that you have all the right versions of .Net installed and they are the correct ones (SDK vs Runtime). If you open the config file for nant you can see where it expects the .net version to be go check to make sure it's there and that you can see hte compiler methods (csc, vbc, etc). So it could have something that is trying to find it but it's not there or the pathing is off.
It is beta so there could even be a typo in the config file.
The answer is my anti-virus. I should have tried disabling that first! Once I disabled it, everything worked like a charm.
Hope this helps someone.