Unable to use DLL in Unity UWP app

[vmhazoglou]

My steps:

Built Renci.SshNet.NET35 and copied the DLL at *\src\Renci.SshNet.NET35\bin\Debug\ into Unity assets

Modified script from here as needed:

 using System.IO;
 using Renci.SshNet;
 using Renci.SshNet.Common;
 using Renci.SshNet.Sftp;

 String Host = "ftp.csidata.com";
 int Port = 22;
 String RemoteFileName = "TheDataFile.txt";
 String LocalDestinationFilename = "TheDataFile.txt";
 String Username = "yourusername";
 String Password = "yourpassword";
  void Start(){
 using (var sftp = new SftpClient(Host, Port, Username, Password))
 {
     sftp.Connect();

     using (var file = File.OpenWrite(LocalDestinationFilename))
     {
         sftp.DownloadFile(RemoteFileName, file);
     }

     sftp.Disconnect();
 }
 }

Build solution aimed at HoloLens/UWP apps:

SDK - Universal 10

Target device - Any device

UWP Build Type - D3D

Changed .dll settings to SDK: Any SDK ; ScriptingBackend: Dot Net ; Don't process: Checked

Unity version: 5.5.1f1

Visual Studio version: 2015 update 3

Debugger tells me:

An exception of type 'System.IO.FileLoadException' occurred in Renci.SshNet.dll but was not handled in user code

Additional information: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Core, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' or one of its dependencies. The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131040)

I've tried cleaning and rebuilding the solution as well as adding UnityEngine.dll as a reference but with no luck.

Thank you in advance for the help.

Additional info:

I just tried using the DLL from the Renci.SshNet.UAP10 directory and I get the same error.

If I add the lines

 AssemblyName Core = new AssemblyName("System.Core, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089, Retargetable=Yes");

 Assembly.Load(Core);

It stops throwing the Exception but I have no way to check if it's connected properly because any other code stops working (like trying to write "Connected." in a UI Unity textbox).

[m00nh34d]

I don't think you can read/write files using the normal methods with UWP apps. I'm having a similar issue right now, in that I can't see how to download files with SSH.NET as it wants to write to a file stream, but UWP doesn't expose any file streams... (as far as I can tell)

[vmhazoglou]

Yea, the File.IO namespace isn't available in UWP apps at all. So if this asset uses File.IO then it isn't actually UWP10 compatible. Windows Storage is used instead of File.IO: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/files/quickstart-listing-files-and-folders

Also, shouldn't it target NETFramework to be for UWP apps, not NETCore?