MonoGame.Framework.Net & GamerServices

Windows Phone
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Updating to 3.4 and I am in need of Microsoft.Xna.Framework.GamerServices. According to the changelog, they used vile wizardry to move
> “NET and GamerServices into its own MonoGame.Framework.Net assembly.”

Which is fine, if I could find the damn thing. Is it a seperate dll file? If so, where is it located? I pulled the latest commit, updated my references & all of that malarkery, and can’t find a way to use the GamerServices namespace. Using the old namespace Microsoft.Xna.Framework.GamerServices results in the error:

Error	1	The type or namespace name 'GamerServices' does not exist in the namespace 'Microsoft.Xna.Framework' (are you missing an assembly reference?)
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If you are building from GitHub source, make sure you run Protobuild.exe in the root of the repo to rebuild the solution and project files.

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Absolutely, all part of the latest pull. Also tried the NuGet package to see if that was any different.

To ask the question another way - how am I supposed to be able to include the GamerServices namespace with Monogame 3.4, if not Microsoft.Xna.Framework.GamerServices?

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You added the assembly reference to Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Net in your project? Then you can use the Microsoft.Xna.Framework.GamerServices namespace.

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I am having the same issue using the MonoGame.WindowsPhone8 NuGet package. I have no idea how to make my project building. MonoGame.Framework.dll does not contain the GamerServices namespace.

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Ah, there we go - I figured it out @Andrea_Angella.

The NuGet package doesn’t include a reference to MonoGame.Framework.Net, for whatever reason. You have to pull from github, and run Protobuild.exe.

On my end, protobuild was putting the .dll files in an unexpected directory. One I was able to find the updated .dlls, I was able to include the reference.

Unless I am missing something, is this expected behaviour for the NuGet package @KonajuGames?

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Thanks. I have being able to build my solution.

Just to make your comment more complete, after running protobuild:

  • You need to build the solution MonoGame.Framework.WindowsPhone (Release for ARM and x86)

  • Copy the following files into your solution

  • MonoGame.Framework\bin\WindowsPhone\ARM\Release\MonoGame.Framework.Net.dll

  • MonoGame.Framework\bin\WindowsPhone\x86\Release\MonoGame.Framework.Net.dll

  • Reference them updating the project with something like this:

    libs\MonoGame\ARM\MonoGame.Framework.Net.dll libs\MonoGame\x86\MonoGame.Framework.Net.dll

However, this is not good and I do hope that the MonoGame team will put this dll in the NuGet package.

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Bummer. I’ve just run into this as well. I was really hoping not to have to do a pull/build from GIT.

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Same here. Would really like a NuGet for MonoGame.Framework.Net as well