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Just curious...
Has anyone actually gotten Xamarin Forms to work in Visual Studio?
I've tried installing it on 3 different PC's - Home, Company 1, and now Company 2 ... and in each case it's a nightmare getting it installed.
Then, when it appears to be installed, I get countless compilation errors that say "Please install.... blah blah blah".
So, anyone here actually have it working?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Most of us still code in VB, so this is pretty futuristic technology you are talking about.
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You do realize that it's against the CP rules to mention 'VB' in the Lounge? 
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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On almost-halloween-time, we are allowed to scare people to death with mentions of VB6.0
And if you really want to scare them, just tell them half of the financial industry relies on VB and FORTRAN.
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And if you really, really, want to scare them, get them to go to QA and see what the next generation are doing ... VB would be an improvement ... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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VB6? That's far too advanced! 
10 INK (RND*6)
20 PRINT "BOO! ";
30 GOTO 10
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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...and the other half is using COBOL.
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Even more against the rules to admit to coding in it...
Are you still having problems getting it to work? Xamarin Forms still works fine on my system (I must get back to learning how to use it...  )
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Are you still having problems getting it to work? Xamarin Forms still works fine on my system
I started at a new company Monday. I manually installed[^] the Android and Java components and they seemed to install OK.
Then I went into VS2015 and was prompted to update Xamarin, which I did.
Lastly I followed this example[^], and upon build/deploy got all the "Please install..." errors.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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OriginalGriff wrote: I must get back to learning how to use it.
Yes, yes, I do see a pattern emerging here. Every thing works just fine on my system until I actually start using it.
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Unless you live in land down under, have a mullet and are referring to Victoria Bitter - Wikipedia[^]
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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Merely to mention it, is to damn your soul _
into having to use underscores for all eternity.
End If
Jeremy Falcon
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Fortunately, Xamarin lets you create iOS and Android apps using VBif you want to. 
So when you look at it that way, I suppose you could say that VB is the future.
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You're scaring me... 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Yes. I do.
This space for rent
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Did you go through all manner of issues getting it installed? For the thrird time now I've had no end to problems... on 3 different PC's
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Took me a bit of fiddling, but yes I did.
This space for rent
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"Took me a bit of fiddling"
Very concise whilst not too precise!
Been there and done that, but most of the time it's due to not having enough and also correct information. 
Let's push this out the door, if they really are keen on using it they'll figure out how it's supposed to work.
My current source of woe: TFS 2015 / TFS 15 vNext build system. Works out of the box except if ... 
(It is really great let me assure you of this, but trying to find good documentation on it is not! )
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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What errors are you getting? Admittedly, I have had a lot of errors with Xamarin, but it is working for me now. What version of windows are you using?
Please provide details and perhaps I can help.
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I've installed it on a Windows 7 laptop. And also on a Windows 7 VM running on a MAC. Biggest problem I had was getting it to connect to the MAC. After a couple of updates on both the W7 and MAC sides things seem to be pretty smooth now.
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I even didn't tried!  IMHO Xamarin as a 3-rd party company don't reward attention. .NET is a MS platform and THEY are completely responsible for proper UI lib on Linux. But instead of burying clumsy WPF and making usable UI, MS just points finger "hey, see, these guys make something like UI!". WTF?!! Who is responsible for that UI? Nobody. So why we should waste time on "hand made" library w/o any support and quality assurance?
ATM MS has only two robust combinations: Windows+WinForms & Windows+WPF. Last one is slow and clumsy, so only 1.5 combinations.
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I used it at a previous job (~2 years ago now). Got it working fine. Had to get all those dependencies taken care of that you're noticing, but I don't remember it being that painful.
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I got it to work using VS2013. It was painful but worth it.
I have two Corporate Apps running.
Once you figure out the hundreds of little obstacles, you can get to a nice little code->deploy cycle.
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After spending several fruitless hours I gave up and decided the old ways are best.
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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