Photon3Win8RT.dll is a debug version -> fails WAK

OK, found a solution here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/429 ... elease.zip

Sorry, I made a bad search ;-)

Thanks Tobias,

now I stuck in a problem that appears serious. The acknowledgment control on Windows Store refuses my package reporting that using external APIs is not permitted.

I've compiled my app in VS2013 targeting Windows Phone 8.1 and all runs fine on the emulator, but the physical device disconnects before leaving the Master and connecting the Game Server.

Tryng to downgrade the app targeting Windows Phone 8, VS refuses to add Photon3Win8Phone.dll. The error says that is not possible to add a reference to a not compatible assembly or a major version.

:-(

OKOK, It seems that my LOCAL WACK was not up to date, and reported the error. The Online WACK passed the tests after I simply referenced the Release version of the Photon dll. First time errors were due to the Debug version referenced.
I've tweaked a bit the dll with Reflexil, now I don't know if some reference I've changed (System.Runtime.WindowsRuntime) could have done the trick, but now all is working right.

Sorry for hassling the forum with my bad English

Flavio

EDIT

NO, this is not the solution! The WACK is passed, but there is no way to make the app working.
I've downgraded to Windows Phone 8.0 and I've now a test version onlilne.
Hope Exit Games will provide an 8.1 compatible version of the sdk.

I downgraded my app and I'm now targeting Windows Phone 8.0. The application runs fine referencing the Photon3Win8Phone 4.0.0.4 DLL and passes the WACK (if there is one for 8.0) for APIs. I succesfully published the beta version of my app this way.

The previous version of the app, targeting Windows Phone 8.1 and referencing the same release of the SDK runs fine, but does'nt passes the WACK.
Playing with Reflexil I patched the internal references of the Photon3Win8Phone.dll to mscorlib and System to the WindowsPhoneApp (rather than WindowsPhone) framework, that have version 4.0.0.0 and different PublicKeyToken, and the WACK passed succesfully, but the app (most obviously) didn't work, showing a file not found exception loading System.dll.

I think the Photon SDK must be recompiled referencing the correct framework (4.0.0.0), but this would breaking compatibility with the Windows Phone 8.0 targeting, so there must be two separate versioins of the Photon SDK.

I think the 8.0 support is OK, it's not so obsolete (developing for 8.0 is widening the audience) but 8.1 is more flexible and we want definitively support for it

Just for knowledge: I've subclassed the Photon Server for my app in Visual Basic and it runs fine as game's master for my app.

Thanks for checking this.

Thanks Tobias, I'll be glad to collaborate.

8.1 faces way better features... One for all: event managers in the UI are thread safe, you can react to a Photon event normally without to make use of Dispatch method.