Windows Universal: StreamWriter/Reader

I am porting over a WP8 project to Windows Universal, and I am facing the errors below. I Understand that the StreamWriter and StreamReader is expecting a Stream object… but why? my code worked perfectly in everything but universal output…

Any advice? Are universal apps not allowed to use StreamXXXXX(string)? Must I have encoding? I’m baffled.

The best overloaded method match for 'System .10 StreamWriter.StreamWriter(System.IO Stream)' has some invalid arguments 
cannot convert from 'string' to 'System .10 Stream' 
Argument I: 
'System .10 StreamWriter' does not contain a definition for 'C ose' and no extension method 'C ose' accepting a first argument of type 'System .10 StreamWriter' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembl 
The best overloaded method match for 'System .10 StreamReader.StreamReader(System.IO Stream)' has some invalid arguments 
cannot convert from 'string' to 'System .10 Stream' 
Argument I: 
The best overloaded method match for 'System .10 StreamWriter.StreamWriter(System.IO Stream)' has some invalid arguments 
cannot convert from 'string' to 'System .10 Stream' 
Argument I: 
System .10 StreamWriter' does not contain a definition for 'C ose' and no extension method 'C ose' accepting a first argument of type 'System .10 StreamWriter' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembl 
The best overloaded method match for 'System .10 StreamReader.StreamReader(System.IO Stream)' has some invalid arguments 
cannot convert from 'string' to 'System .10 Stream'

I believe I found the answer/solution.

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