Universal Windows Platform (UWP)
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Could not find part of the path to Shared Content: microsoft/windows-universal-samples
Allanjb
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Installed Microsoft Windows Universal Samples and tried to build one of the projects using C#
I downloaded all the projects and unzipped them all to a folder on my drive.
The build fails trying to include components from the shared folder.
From the project build file, The macro that defines the location of the shared folder is $(SharedContentDir)
The Samples documentation mentions that the shared folder is linked to the project, but doesn't mention how.
How can I edit the $(SharedContentDir) macro, (assuming it's a macro) to point to the shared folder on my drive?
I could change the link through VS2019 for each individual file but that would be quite horrendous.
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Fay Wang - MSFT 5,216 Reputation points2020-08-14T06:26:35.427+00:00 When you downloaded the sample, have you unzipped the entire archive or just unzipped the Samples folder to your driver? Can you tell us the detailed information about the exception you received when you built one of the projects? In addition, here is a document about how to get uwp sample by downloading, you can also check it.
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Allanjb 246 Reputation points
2020-08-14T13:42:36+00:00 I have managed to get the samples to build and run.
I downloaded again from Github and reinstalled them.
When I originally downloaded the samples, I must have moved them to a new location, hence the broken link.The SharedContentDir was pointing to my e:\ root folder and not where they were being loaded/built from.
I would like to use SharedFolders in my own applications by setting up a Link as Microsoft have done with the examples,
Can you tell me where I can get that insight into how to do this? -
Fay Wang - MSFT 5,216 Reputation points
2020-08-17T07:42:44.417+00:00 The SharedContentDir the sample used looks for a file in the directories above the current directory in the path, if the Samples folder and SharedContent folder are not under the same directory, it can not find the SharedContent. Maybe you could change the path of SharedContentDir to find the SharedContent folder in your own application.
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