Forum ‹ C# ‹ Project does not work in Visual Studio 2015

[SirGordon]

Hi!
I've just updated my IDE to Visual Studio Community edition 2015 and when i debug my game, it says there are static constructors in my classes.
What can I do to run my server side solution?

[Kp0c]

I have that problem too, i think problem in new compilator. My soultion - install VS 2013. (Sorry for bad English )

[SirGordon]

I have that problem too, i think problem in new compilator. My soultion - install VS 2013. (Sorry for bad English )

Yeah, I'm just using VS 2013 too..

[ahmedselmi00]

same. Any fixes please ?

[mechanicallyseparatedgames]

Same problem. Henrik, or other Yahoo Staff, could you please advise?

[Guillaume]

What is the default .NET Framework version defined in your project ?
Can you try to downgrade it and re-test ?

[Henrik]

We've had multiple reports of this, but we haven't had time to really dig into it.

A quick guess is that the new compiler is doing something "smart" to optimize the code and transforms it by adding a static intitializer, which our codescan then detects.

Quick suggested workarounds: Change the Target Framework of the project to ".Net Framework 4" instead of what's default in VS2015. Don't check the "Optimize code" checkbox in your build config.

[mechanicallyseparatedgames]

I had a bit of trouble getting VS 2013 installed, so it took me some time to reply. Once I had VS 2013 installed, and the first time when loading my project that was previously built in VS 2015, VS 2013 told me that the project was built in .Net 4.5.2 and since I had uninstalled VS 2015, I didn't have 4.5.2 anymore and had to build it in .Net 4.5.0. It worked right away as Kp0c indicated.

Henrik your guess was similar to others whom I asked for advice, however not wanting to reinstall VS 2015 at the moment, I haven't been able to check.

I noticed that there was an update to the SDK today. Did it address this issue?

[SirGordon]

When i open the project in VS2015 target framework is still .Net 4.0 and "optimize code" is not checked but it's still not working with the same static stuff errors.

Maybe it's because VS2015 adds something for profiling.. or it's other new features?

[Henrik]

We'll have a fix for his released shortly.

[mechanicallyseparatedgames]

Could somebody confirm that today's SDK build fixes this problem? I'd like to know before I install VS 2015 again.

[Henrik]

We have not released the fix yet.

[clzola]

Is this fixed, because I have just created new project in VS2015 and I am getting these 2 errors:
- Could not find any Player.IO room types in the dll.
- MyGame.GameCode/<>c..ctor() is static -- Static constructors are disallowed.

Targeted framework is .NET 4.0 and "Optimize Code" is not checked.

[Henrik]

Yes, this was released on September 23rd, just a few days after my last post in this thread.

[clzola]

Yes, this was released on September 23rd, just a few days after my last post in this thread.

Then how do I fix these problems?

[Henrik]

Are you sure you are using the latest development server and gamelibrary dll?

If it can't find your game code dll, then something's wrong with your project. When the dev server starts, you can click the name of the game code dll to make sure it's picked the right one. If you copied files over from another project, you may have copied over settings files that point to the completely wrong game code dll.

[clzola]

Sorry, I was not around for a while.
I have just downloaded new fresh SDK (v3.2.457, Decembar 18th), extracted and clicked twice on Serverside Code.VS2010.sln (Yahoo Games Network SDK.FfkETLs96FrH2bniwURzDw\Flash\NewGame\).
It is opened by VS2015 Community Edition, and then I pressed Run button.

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Server Started
========================
(waiting for connection)

Checking if newGame.dll is a game dll (from application directory)
- error: Could not find any Player.IO room types [RoomType(...)] in the dll.

Checking if newGame.dll is a game dll (from application directory)
- error: MyGame.GameCode/<>c..cctor() is static -- Static constructors are disallowed.


This is what I got. I am also on Windows 10 if that matters...

[tripknotix]

I have the exact same issue, i tried rebuilding as well.

[Henrik]

I do exactly what you do, Visual Studio 2015, the latest SDK zip file, open the project, press F5, sign in to the dev server as me, and it loads newGame.dll just fine?

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Server Started
========================
(waiting for connection)

Trying last loaded dll

Using Game Dll: newGame.dll
========================
(dll: C:\Users\IEUser\Desktop\Yahoo Games Network SDK.FfkETLs96FrH2bniwURzDw\Flash\NewGame\Serverside Code\Player.IO Test Server Project\bin\Debug\newGame.dll)

If you click on newGame.dll, can you explicitly pick the one from the latest SDK? What does it say then?

What's your target framework for both projects? I tried both 4.5 and 4.6.2, they both work.

[Nvd1234]

The dev server works just fine, but it doesn't when uploading to YGN. It simply won't load.

[Guillaume]

It's probably related to the new Roslyn compiler of VS2015 ?

[tripknotix]

Just an update, never got this to work, with a project that started from VS 2010 in 2011, upgraded to VS 2012 back in 2012, now using VS 2013 since December 2015 because its the newest VS that will work with the old project. The project is about 4 years old now.

Its probably about time i start from scratch and just copy over the code to a new project, will have to consider that soon.

[TD]

Yes that works just confirmed that method

[Eloy]

I am Brazilian, I started using PlayerIO now googled already enough about servers and PlayerIO seemed the most attractive, but I find myself in exactly the same problem, absolutely everything I tested worked perfectly following what the site says, but only with examples ready (testing fridgemagnets for example), but with "new game" nothing worked ... both local server, such as uploading the DLL, both generated errors, actually I lost and discouraged encounter in using PlayerIO, I spent an entire morning trying solve, deleted and reinstalled the SDK numerous times but nothing .. (sorry my english lol)