The Media Center Sandbox

When having a WMC Plugin installed using “devinstall /debug” and changes some of the code referenced by one of the mcml files. You can experience that your project incorrectly can build or incorrectly not build. This is due to the Visual Studio is validating the mcml files against the currently running binaries installed in WMC and not your code in “Bin\Debug”.

To get the correct compile error or being able to build you need to uninstall the plugin “devinstall /u”.

Is there any other way to have VS to check against the right binaries? Or address this issue in next version of this SDK?

Thanks

Kim

The easiest way around this is to ruin VS elevated and put devinstall /u in your pre-build commands and devinstall /debug in your post build commands. That way you will always compile against the correct one.

btw it's not the currently running binaries in WMC that it validates against, it's the assembly installed in the Global Assembly Cache (GAC).

Cheers,
Andrew

Yes, that i a good workaround

Sure it is in the GAC, the same as WMC is using.

Thanks

Still this would be nice to have fixed in vNext