Debugger error "Could not connect. The system cannot find the specified file" from Ripple and Android emulator

Question

Debugger error "Could not connect. The system cannot find the specified file" from the Ripple emulator and Android

I just installed a preview of the Multi-Device hybrid apps for Visual Studio 2013, and I get an error when trying to debug from pulsation or other emulators.

The build process always succeeds, but when you start debugging, VS displays this error message:

"Unable to connect. The system cannot find the specified file"

There is no useful solution provided by Visual Studio 2013, and the debugger simply does not attach to the Ripple browser emulator after the exception is thrown. An exception occurs immediately and the debugger never joins. I had this error since the installation, so it should not have anything to do with the project itself. I checked my paths and they look correct, as in @Freddy's answer , because the build is always successful.

Answer 1

This can happen if Visual Studio is installed on a non-system drive. If this happens, you can work around it by copying the type assemblycriptSourceMapReader.dll from

<SystemDrive>\Program Files(x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies 

in the same place on the disk where Visual Studio is installed.
Rebooting VS after this should fix the problem.