Xbox One UWP File Access

Question

In testing my (C# UWP) game worked flawlessly. However, when I deployed to the Microsoft store my game fails on start up. It has been a few days and the Failure log is now populating with data on the Dashboard.

According to the Dashboard I am having a DirectoryNotFoundException in the main constructor. The only file IO that occurs is setting a media element source to a sound.

sounds.Source = new Uri(@"ms-appx:///Assets/Sounds/mySounds.wav");

In dev activation mode on my Xbox this all worked fine. The PC version in production works fine too. Does any one know if the Xbox in production has access to a sub directory in the Assets folder?

Update: I have just now been granted access to the complete stack trace.

Could you please confirm that the mySounds.wav is correctly packaged? Have you testing your app with the Windows App Certification Kit? — Sunteen Wu
Yes I use the app certification kit, and the game works perfectly on PC. Xbox is the only platform with the issue. — Travis Pettry
In that case, you may need to contract the store support. Please try to open a ticket here — Sunteen Wu

Travis Pettry Travis Pettry · Accepted Answer · 2017-11-24T23:49:57

It turns out that the Store Services SDK version 1710 was signed incorrectly by Microsoft, this was triggering the exception. Once I remove the code that is specific to the Store Services the game was running fine again.

Xbox One UWP File Access

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