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Lanuching Visual Studio Android Emulator from the command line

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Quick command line to launch the Visual Studio Android Emulator for Lollipop

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%ProgramFiles(x86)%Microsoft
XDE10.0.1.0xde.exe /sku Android /displayName "VS Emulator 5"
Lollipop (5.0) XXHDPI Phone" /memSize 2048 /diagonalSize 5 /video
"1080x1920" /vhd
"%LOCALAPPDATA%MicrosoftVisualStudioEmulatorAndroidContai‌
​nersLocalDevicesvhd5_Lollipop_(5.0)_XXHDPI_Phoneimage.vhd" /name
"VS Emulator 5-inch Lollipop (5.0) XXHDPI Phone.%USERNAME%"