SharpDX missing for Universal app - Best way to get it?

[Thraka]

My MonoGame library uses the latest public NuGet packages. I want to create a version for UWP and test in a UWP app. I created the UWP app, added the MonoGame Universal NuGet package but SharpDX is missing. What is the best way to add references to SharpDX? Which version should I download?

[MrValentine]

Are you using Dev branch or Release branch? 3.6~ or 3.5.1~?

I use the downloads from the download page, not the NuGet nor the Git so I don’t know if the Dev branch is available on NuGet or not

[Thraka]

I’ve been using the release nuget.org repository. They have a nuget server for the dev branch but I don’t want to use unreleased stuff for my release.

[MrValentine]

So… 3.5.1?

Try posting the exact error message as well to help…

[Thraka]

Yes 3.5.1.1679.

Hm…it’s just an unhandled exception (caught by the global handler) that says SharpDX.dll is missing. I created a new Universal App, added the MonoGame NuGet package, used the starter code (game class, game XAML, app.cs) from the MonoGame installer to get a “game that clears the screen” running.

I tried installing SharpDX and then referencing those libraries and it gets passed the “SharpDX dll missing” error and just crashes with no information.

I was hoping someone here actually created a universal app game and could say what they did.

I did try using the MonoGame template but

1. It’s using an old version of MonoGame
2. Visual Studio 2015 U3 refuses to actually create the project with some error about an application wizard not being available.

Which is why I’m trying to do it by hand

[MrValentine]

Take a look in here:

MonoGame 3.5.1 VS 2015 CE Templates Fix

MonoGame 3.5.1 VS 2015 CE Templates Fix Originally posted to the first link below, I am just sharing this as a thread to make it easier for me or others to link to the required help information. Side note: I was not using any proof reading when I made those posts and have added them here as originally posted. To fix this all I did was open the template inside the templates folder with explorer; that is the zipped WindowsUniversal.zip file. Edited the WindowsUniversa…

and have a browse here:

Useful MonoGame Related Links U-MG-RL

Well to be honest I did not think the title would actually contain URL, only noticed it after typing it out haha So I figured a lot of users - especially newcomers - ask for tutorials as someone did recently but that is not what sparked this thread, it was one of my now not so… just read the copied post below from my GCT post… While doing my now not so regular system backups and refreshes - though this one is called for - I came across a link in my favourites that was a bit too long for copyi…

[dmanning23]

MonoGame UWP uses old nuget packages for SharpDX… you have to install whichever SharpDx package it is complainging about, and then downgrade it to 3.0.0

If you try to just use the latest, that’s when it starts throwing “SharpDx not found.”

Hope this helps. Cheers!

[Thraka]

Thanks. I was still having odd issues when using a new UWP app project + nuget monogame. Modifying the UWP MonoGame template and creating a project that way fixed it for me for now.

[Thraka]

I’ve run into a different though similar issue. I have two projects:

1. UWP library that uses MonoGame Universal (referenced via program files)
2. UWP App that uses MonoGame Universal (referenced via program files)

I’m running into these weird scenarios:

1. UWP app references the UWP library directly as a project reference.

   SharpDX files and MonoGame are copied to app output and game runs

2. UWP app references my NuGet package of the UWP library.

   SharpDX files are not copied to output, MonoGame is copied. Game will not run

Any idea why referencing the my NuGet package (which has a reference to the program files monogame.dll) causes the sharpdx files not to be copied? So strange and frustrating.