SettingsPane not found in Windows 10 build

Question

I am building a new Windows 10 UWP (Universal Windows Platform) app using Visual Studio 2015. Actually I am porting my Windows 8.1 app, but I did so by creating a whole new project and manually pulling in each class.

My app is failing to build with the following error:

The type or namespace name 'SettingsPane' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

The C# file in question does have a using statement for Windows.UI.ApplicationSettings, and I also get the error even if I try to fully qualify SettingsPane as Windows.UI.ApplicationSettings.SettingsPane.

According to this, SettingsPane should be available to Win10 apps, in the namespace I mentioned.

So the question is: why is my app failing to build? Am I missing a dll, or just not understanding something else?

Answer 1

The remark at the top of the document clears it up:

[SettingsPane may be altered or unavailable for releases after Windows 10. Instead of using a SettingsPane, integrate settings options into the app experience. For more info, see Guidelines for app settings.]

Instead of using SettingsPane, make sure that you build native support for settings within the app itself.