System.Net.Sockets not found in WP8.1 project

Question

Brand new Windows Phone 8.1 project in C#, VS2013 update 4. The using System.Net.Sockets line gives a compilation error:

The type or namespace name 'Sockets' does not exist in the namespace 'System.Net' (are you missing an assembly reference?)

The System.Net assembly is not available in the References dialog - it claims all possible assemblies have been already referenced. Trying to browse to it produces a message that the assembly is already referenced in the project.

What am I missing, please?

EDIT: in a project that's explicitly targeting WP8.0 (the template is called "Windows Phone Silverlight" as opposed to "Windows Phone") the namespace in question is available.

Can't find such an assembly. The docs claim the Sockets namespace is in System.Net.dll — Seva Alekseyev, Jan 22 '15 at 17:45
And you have the `using` statement? or fully qualified types? Please show some code. — ps2goat, Jan 22 '15 at 17:48
I think it's Windows.Networking.Sockets on WP 8.1. See this SO question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23477961/cannot-find-system-net-sockets-assembly-for-wp-8-1 — mbcrute, Jan 22 '15 at 18:00

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 30 '16 at 10:00

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Simple Answer: System.Net.Sockets is not supported on Windows Phone 8.1

Use Windows.Networking.Sockets instead. Documentation available here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/library/windows/apps/windows.networking.sockets.aspx

answered Mar 30 '16 at 10:00

Florian-Rh

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