UWP App will not build using windows-latest (windows 2022) on Azure Pipeline

Question

I am trying to build a UWP app using the latest version of windows for my vmImage, currently the build script looks like this:

# Universal Windows Platform
# Build a Universal Windows Platform project using Visual Studio.
# Add steps that test and distribute an app, save build artifacts, and more:
# https://aka.ms/yaml

trigger:
- none

pool:
  vmImage: 'windows-2019'

variables:
  solution: '**/*.sln'
  buildPlatform: 'ARM'
  buildConfiguration: 'Release'
  appxPackageDir: '$(build.artifactStagingDirectory)\AppxPackages\\'

Whenever I try to use windows-latest or windows-2022 it gives me multiple Error CS0234 for namespace Windows, System and a bunch of other things, is it possible to build UWP apps using windows-2022? Or am I missing something.

Other people have mentioned they solved their problem but their platform was ARMx64 and the solution did not apply to my problem.

Answer 1

I sorted this out, so I thought I would just leave my solution here if anyone has the same problem in the future.

In the windows-latest to windows-2022 upgrade thread, someone posted a link to the Windows 10 SDK versions supported by windows-2022. I was targeting Windows 10, version 1903 which requires Windows 10 SDK 10.0.18362.0, this version of the SDK does not ship with the windows-2022 image. The SDKs that ships with windows-2022 are:

10.0.17763.0
10.0.19041.0
10.0.20348.0
10.0.22000.0

I changed the target Windows version of my app to Windows 10, version 2004 (the SDK is in windows-2022) and it built fine. My min version is Windows 10, version 1809 (the SDK is also in windows-2022) as this is the latest version of Windows 10, Windows 10 IoT Core ships with.

Alexander Schmidt has a nice (but little outdated) article explaining the windows SDKs the different Azure DevOps agents ship with.

Answer 2

@Stefan Buys

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