Could not find Windows Runtime type 'SharpDX.WP8.Interop'.

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I’m trying to upgrade an older Windows project to the latest version of MonoGame. After installing MonoGame 3.2 and updating my references, I get the following error on game.Run().

Could not find Windows Runtime type ‘SharpDX.WP8.Interop’.

Any idea what I’m missing? I don’t want to do a WP8 game so I’m a little confused why this is blowing up for missing a WP8 DLL.

Thanks!

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That sounds like you may be loading the wrong assemblies for SharpDX.

How did you setup your game project?

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I’m get the same exception.
I downloaded and installed the Monogame 3.2 Development Installer and create a new windows 8 project.

I’m using Visual Studio 2013 only with update 2 and the new windows phone 8.1 sdk (which have the windows phone 8.0 templates and universal apps)

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Have this issue been fixed?
Don’t know why, but if you add as reference the SharpDX.WP8.winmd file all works fine.

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I had this issue as well. I was loading the WPF Interop project in VS13. When loading the project the Sharp refs were pointing to the Windows Phone assemblies. I changed them to the Windows assemblies located in the neighboring folder. After that, all worked as expected.