Question

I’m hitting getting a strange exception in my Windows 8 app when I try and run it the Simulator and try and Request Background Excution privelege using BackgroundExecutionManager.RequestAccessAsync();

I get

“WinRT information: You can’t change background task and lock screen
privileges while running this app in the simulator.”

This is obviously down to some issue due in how the Simulator works over RDP.

My question is, is there any way I can put a conditional around the offending line to avoid calling it when run in the simulator?

Answer 1

You could have a conditional compilation symbol that you set when you want to run in the simulator.