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Using System.Threading in hololens application
I'm trying to rebuild an application I'd already made to a hololens application using Unity. When trying to build it I get about 30 errors telling me " error CS1061: 'Thread' does not contain a definition for 'Start' " and "error CS1061: 'Stream' does not contain a definition for 'Close' " etc.
They are included in the project and the application runs fine in the editor.
Can I not use threading or streams in hololens applications?
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These APIs will work in the Editor because the Editor is not a UWP app. What is built for HoloLens is a UWP app. For some operations in UWP apps namespaces/class names have changed. Threading, networking, and storage are the ones that have been the most impactful to me.
What I usually end up doing is having non-UWP code inside #if UNITY_EDITOR blocks and UWP code inside #if !UNITY_EDITOR blocks.
The HoloToolkit has some classes that have examples of this you can look at. In particular:
SpatialMapping\Scripts\MeshSaver.cs => Tasks, Storage
SpatialMapping\Scripts\RemoteMeshSource.cs
SpatialMapping\Scripts\RemoteMeshTarget.cs => Networking===
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These APIs will work in the Editor because the Editor is not a UWP app. What is built for HoloLens is a UWP app. For some operations in UWP apps namespaces/class names have changed. Threading, networking, and storage are the ones that have been the most impactful to me.
What I usually end up doing is having non-UWP code inside #if UNITY_EDITOR blocks and UWP code inside #if !UNITY_EDITOR blocks.
The HoloToolkit has some classes that have examples of this you can look at. In particular:
SpatialMapping\Scripts\MeshSaver.cs => Tasks, Storage
SpatialMapping\Scripts\RemoteMeshSource.cs
SpatialMapping\Scripts\RemoteMeshTarget.cs => Networking
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This post provided as-is with no warranties and confers no rights. Using information provided is done at own risk.
(Daddy, what does 'now formatting drive C:' mean?)
Ah, that makes sense. Thank you so much for explaining it so clearly!