VS2015 Ripple emulator doesn't load at all

Question

The project I am trying to load was originally written in Ionic, and has now been imported as Visual Studio project. I've set the project to Debug > Android > Ripple - Nexus(Galaxy), but when I run it, I just get a page that says "Hello, your application is ready!", but nothing I do gets any response from the page.

I am completely new to app dev, I didn't even write this project, I've just been tasked with importing to VS2015. Have I missed something completely here?

Answer 1

Since the article you mention was written, VS has introduced an "import" feature.

Rather than following these directions, instead start VS, go to File > New > Project From Existing Code... and import the Ionic project as an Apache Cordova project.

If you're starting a new Ionic project and are just getting going you may want to install and use the Ionic template that the Ionic team created instead.