Exit() Obsolete on Windows Desktop

Windows
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I’m in the process of upgrading my Monogame project to the newest version (3.5).

I’ve systematically gotten rid of all the insane error messages (so far) except one:

‘Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.Exit()’ is obsolete: ‘This platform’s policy does not allow programmatically closing.’

It’s been pointed out that while this message is normal for some platforms (like Windows Phone), it should still be valid for a Windows desktop program, which is what I’m making.

Does Visual Studio think I’m making something other than a desktop program and why? I have a hypothesis that it could be that I’m referencing the wrong MonoGame.Framework.dll. I tried switching from the one labelled as “Windows” to “WindowsUniversal” and then to “Windows8”, but got the following error each time:

A reference to ‘MonoGame.Framework’ could not be added. The project targets ‘.NET Framework’ while the file reference targets ‘.NETCore’.

I’m out of ideas.

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Found this one google at my first attempt.

:wink:

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is WINDOWS defined as the conditional compilation symbol? (in project properties)

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I’ve found that post as well, but it sounds like the author is trying to make a Windows Store program. Mine is just for desktop.

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Fixed it.

I created a new, blank project and used it as a reference to find the correct assembly to use in the existing project.

For me, it was under
C:\Program Files (x86)\MonoGame\v3.0\Assemblies\Windows\MonoGame.Framework.dll,
which wasn’t showing up in the reference manager for some reason. I had to manually browse to it.