Universal Windows Component template not available

I have installed Oxygene 8.2.88.1867. Yet I still don’t see Universal Windows Anything under Oxygene when creating a new project (I see UWP in Visual C#). Is there some other beta I need to install or … ?

My configuration:

  • Windows 7
  • VS 2015 Enterprise release with installed Universal Windows Tools

Hello, it’s weird, don’t you have Windows Universal category under Oxygene -> .Net ?


Check also please if templates are installed properly in Program Files? ( C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplates\Oxygene\Echoes\Windows Universal\1033 )

I don’t have C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplates\Oxygene\Echoes\Windows Universal directory . I have just reinstaleld 8.2 beta and there’s no such template directory available on my disk.

Regarding possible “Windows 10 as a requirement” – As I mentioned before, I can create Windows Universal projects in C# in Windows 7, so it should not be a problem for Oxygene (or Echoes?) to do the same.

Hello, Windows 7 should not be a problem, templates should be present in VS 2015, I’ll log and investigate this issue.

Thanks, logged as bugs://73549

Hello,
sorry, but unfortunately you can’t use Oxygene Universal projects on Windows 7, as for now this project type requires Metro installed, that is supported in Windows 8 and higher. We’ll investigate opportunity to use Universal projects in Windows 7 for future releases.

bugs://73549 got closed with status notfixable.

Does this mean that there’s some technical obstacle? Could you please tell me, what kind of obstacle it is? Eg. if we copy UWP assemblies to Windows 7 computer, will the compiler be able to function?