error CS0234: The type or namespace name 'ApplicationModel' does not exist in the namespace 'Windows' (are you missing an assembly reference?)

[Praveer1981]

Hi,
I was following the steps mentioned in readme.md->[## Building from Source]
I am not able to build BackgroundTaskRegisterer successfully.
below is the error which I got in VS2017
1>G:\Github_Downloads\electron-uwp-background\background-task-registerer\Program.cs(3,15,3,31): error CS0234: The type or namespace name 'ApplicationModel' does not exist in the namespace 'Windows' (are you missing an assembly reference?)
1>G:\Github_Downloads\electron-uwp-background\background-task-registerer\Program.cs(39,71,39,89): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'IBackgroundTrigger' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

Do I need to do any additional settings to get rid off this build error ?

[Praveer1981]

Hi
Any Update on this ?

[plamenmetodiev]

Hi,

You can resolve this by clicking edit to your BackgroundTaskRegisterer.csproj file. There find the Windows reference and check the path of the file.
<Reference Include="Windows"> <HintPath>C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\UnionMetadata\10.0.16299.0\Windows.winmd</HintPath> </Reference>

This fixed it for me.