I am attempting to use Google Drive as a storage location in my UWP application. I started at the quickstart provided by Google. I copy the code into a blank UWP project, change some of the output code (Console.Writeline to a textbox.append method) and I try to build it. It fails to build and reports the error:
Cannot find type System.ComponentModel.ExpandableObjectConverter in module System.dll
I am running Windows 10 and VS 2015 and I have installed the sdk through NuGet. The example code in the quickstart does work in a console application. It is the UWP application that is having issues.
For the UWP application, I put the quickstart code in a button click method. This was because the API actually has an async method for the uwp apps which is a bit different then the code given in the quickstart.
Includes:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using Windows.UI.Xaml;
using Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls;
using Google.Apis.Auth.OAuth2;
using Google.Apis.Drive.v3;
using Google.Apis.Drive.v3.Data;
using Google.Apis.Services;
using Google.Apis.Util.Store;
using System.Threading;
The Button Method:
private async void button_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
UserCredential credential;
using (var stream =
new FileStream("client_secret.json", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
{
string credPath = ""; //System.Environment.GetFolderPath(
//System.Environment.SpecialFolder.Personal);
credPath = Path.Combine(credPath, ".credentials/drive-dotnet-quickstart.json");
credential = await GoogleWebAuthorizationBroker.AuthorizeAsync(
new Uri("ms-appx:///Assets/client_secrets.json"),
Scopes,
"user",
CancellationToken.None);
//Console.WriteLine("Credential file saved to: " + credPath);
}
// Create Drive API service.
var service = new DriveService(new BaseClientService.Initializer()
{
HttpClientInitializer = credential,
ApplicationName = ApplicationName,
});
// Define parameters of request.
FilesResource.ListRequest listRequest = service.Files.List();
listRequest.PageSize = 10;
listRequest.Fields = "nextPageToken, files(id, name)";
// List files.
IList<Google.Apis.Drive.v3.Data.File> files = listRequest.Execute()
.Files;
textBox.Text += "Files:\n";
if (files != null && files.Count > 0)
{
foreach (var file in files)
{
textBox.Text += (file.Name + file.Id + "\n");
}
}
else
{
textBox.Text += ("No files found.");
}
}
The test code will not work once the app is compiled as it is missing the code to load the client secret. Since I have not been able to test the code, this is all I can provide.
There is another post that is semi-related except that the answer is just that it wont work and the post has been dead for 4 years. I also wanted to create a new post that tags the google team specifically (like the quickstart says to do).
My specific question is: Is there a work around to this issue or am I just doing this wrong?
