title: Getting "License file is missing. Please activate Mono for Android." when deploying to emulator from VS2010
body: <p>I'm just starting with Mono for Android and installed it using the steps here <a href="http://mono-android.net/Installation/Visual_Studio" rel="nofollow">http://mono-android.net/Installation/Visual_Studio</a> and followed all the steps <a href="http://mono-android.net/Tutorials/Hello_World" rel="nofollow">http://mono-android.net/Tutorials/Hello_World</a> to create my Hello World abut I was not seeing anything, until I found this post to enable debug log <a href="http://mono-android.net/Documentation/Troubleshoot" rel="nofollow">http://mono-android.net/Documentation/Troubleshoot</a> everything in the log seems to be ok except that I get the above error.</p>
  
  <p>Here's the full log</p>
  
  <p>-- Starting Process - 5/20/2011 7:48:39 PM --
  Executable: C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Novell\mandroid.exe
  Arguments: -activated
  Appending Java path: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_25\bin
  [STDERR] License file is missing.  Please activate Mono for Android.
  -- Starting Process - 5/20/2011 7:48:40 PM --
  Executable: C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Novell\mandroid.exe
  Arguments: -activated
  Appending Java path: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_25\bin
  [STDERR] License file is missing.  Please activate Mono for Android.
  -- Starting Process - 5/20/2011 7:48:40 PM --
  Executable: C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools\adb.exe
  Arguments: start-server
  Appending Java path: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_25\bin
  [STDERR] 
  -- Process Finished [5000] --
  -- Starting Process - 5/20/2011 7:48:40 PM --
  Executable: C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools\adb.exe
  Arguments: devices
  Appending Java path: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_25\bin
  [STDOUT] List of devices attached 
  [STDOUT] 
  -- Starting Process - 5/20/2011 7:48:42 PM --
  Executable: C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools\adb.exe
  Arguments: start-server
  Appending Java path: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_25\bin
  [STDOUT] 
  [STDERR] 
  -- Process Finished [5000] --
  -- Starting Process - 5/20/2011 7:48:42 PM --
  Executable: C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools\adb.exe
  Arguments: devices
  Appending Java path: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_25\bin
  [STDOUT] List of devices attached 
  [STDOUT] 
  -- Starting Process - 5/20/2011 7:48:43 PM --
  Executable: C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\tools\android.bat
  Arguments: list avd
  Appending Java path: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_25\bin
  [STDOUT] Available Android Virtual Devices:
  [STDOUT]     Name: MonoDroid
  [STDOUT]     Path: C:\Users\Zubair.android\avd\MonoDroid.avd
  [STDOUT]   Target: Android 2.2 (API level 8)
  [STDOUT]     Skin: HVGA
  [STDOUT]   Sdcard: 512M
  -- Starting Process - 5/20/2011 7:48:44 PM --
  Executable: C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools\adb.exe
  Arguments: start-server
  Appending Java path: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_25\bin
  [STDOUT] 
  [STDERR] 
  -- Process Finished [5000] --
  -- Starting Process - 5/20/2011 7:48:44 PM --
  Executable: C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools\adb.exe
  Arguments: devices
  Appending Java path: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_25\bin
  [STDOUT] List of devices attached 
  [STDOUT] 
  -- Starting Process - 5/20/2011 7:48:45 PM --
  Executable: C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\tools\emulator.exe
  Arguments: -partition-size 512 -avd MonoDroid -prop monodroid.avdname=MonoDroid
  Appending Java path: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_25\bin
  -- Starting Process - 5/20/2011 7:48:46 PM --
  Executable: C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools\adb.exe
  Arguments: start-server
  Appending Java path: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_25\bin
  -- Process Finished [5000] --
  -- Starting Process - 5/20/2011 7:48:46 PM --
  Executable: C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools\adb.exe
  Arguments: devices
  Appending Java path: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_25\bin
  [STDOUT] List of devices attached 
  [STDOUT] emulator-5554  offline
  [STDOUT] 
  -- Starting Process - 5/20/2011 7:48:46 PM --
  Executable: C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools\adb.exe
  Arguments: -s emulator-5554 shell getprop monodroid.avdname
  Appending Java path: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_25\bin
  [STDERR] error: device offline
  -- Process Still Running [5000] --
  -- Starting Process - 5/20/2011 7:48:52 PM --
  Executable: C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools\adb.exe
  Arguments: start-server
  Appending Java path: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_25\bin
  [STDOUT] 
  [STDERR] 
  -- Process Finished [5000] --
  -- Starting Process - 5/20/2011 7:48:52 PM --
  Executable: C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools\adb.exe
  Arguments: devices
  Appending Java path: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_25\bin
  [STDOUT] List of devices attached 
  [STDOUT] </p>