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1. GETTING STARTED WITH XAMARIN FOR VISUAL STUDIO UPDATE
2. GETTING STARTED WITH XAMARIN FOR VISUAL STUDIO SERIES

To do this you need to remove the existing project, rename the folder and project name, and add the existing project back into the solution. I’m not a big fan of that so I rename this to have the UI suffix. App.xaml) and for the main page of the application (MainPage.xaml) was given the same name as the solution itself. By default the project that contains the XAML for the application (i.e. Next we’re going to do a bit of a tidy up. Rename both the file and class name to MainViewModel. This will be our Core project that will contain all our view models, services and business logic for the application. Next we’re going to add a new project based on the Class Library (.NET Standard) project template. On that note, after checking that each platform runs, I would be making the initial commit to source control for your solution. Technically you don’t need to do this but if you run into difficulty later, at least doing a run check here gives you a “last known good” state to revert to.

GETTING STARTED WITH XAMARIN FOR VISUAL STUDIO UPDATE

In my case I just had to update and Xamarin.Forms. Next open the NuGet package manager for the solution and update all packages to the latest stable. DO NOT select Shard Project – this options in my opinion should now be deprecated as multi-targeting is a much better option for achieving this same outcome.Īfter clicking OK to create the project, you’ll want to make sure you can successfully build all projects. In actual fact this template isn’t blank it has 1 page which is required in order for the application to build and run. This will prompt you to select what template to use, in this case we’re going to create a project based on a Blank template. Let’s get started by creating a new solution within Visual Studio, using the Mobile App (Xamarin.Forms) project template Before I get started I try to make sure all my components are up to date, including my MacMini which is what I use for building/debugging iOS applications. Note: I’m running Visual Studio 15.8 preview 5, so your experience may vary a little if you’re running a different version of Visual Studio. NET Standard libraries to be multi-targeted – this also has come a long way. The second thing I wanted to add is how, and why, you can setup your.

GETTING STARTED WITH XAMARIN FOR VISUAL STUDIO SERIES

I’ve walked through this a couple of times in the past ( last year and in the Mvx+1 series I started) but I wanted to do an updated post to firstly point out that the getting started process in Visual Studio has stabilized quite a lot and the process of getting a new Xamarin.Forms project up and running is quite smooth.