Error Installing Update Visual Studio For Mac

Learn how to make your first iOS app using Xamarin and Visual Studio, by making a simple photo library viewer. But don’t worry—the instructions are basically the same if you’re using Windows inside a virtual machine on your Mac. Installing Xcode and Xamarin. Select it and click Update to install. Whew—that’s a lot of. Some customers have reported encountering difficulties while attempting to install/upgrade/uninstall the extension in Visual Studio 2017, or indeed when the Visual Studio installer attempts to upgrade it as part of an update to the IDE.

Since I’ve recently started using Xamarin for cross platform development, I thought it would be nice to share with the community how I’ve got past some of the issues which tripped me up for a while when I was becoming familiar with it. This isn’t really a normal “getting started with Xamarin” tutorial – there’s lots of them already out there already, – but hopefully anyone starting off with Xamarin will find it useful. I use Windows 10 (and have installed the Creator’s Update) – this allows me to use. You’ll know if you’re on the Creator’s Update version if your Windows build number is 1703. If you’re on a different version of Windows, you might have different experiences to me (you can check your version by going to Windows Settings -> System -> About). Before we begin – what’s Xamarin and why should I use it? With tools built into Visual Studio, developers can create native applications in C# for Windows, Mac and Linux devices. So instead of writing and managing three different codebases for three different platforms, developers can just write their code once and deploy it to different app-stores.

Installing Xamarin tools for Visual Studio 2017 With Visual Studio 2017, it’s very easy just open up the setup wizard, select the Xamarin tools (as shown below) and just wait for it to install. It’s probably going to take a long time to install VS2017 with Xamarin – adding Xamarin to the base Visual Studio install makes it about 25GB bigger. Tip: If you leave your machine to download and install Xamarin, it’s worth adjusting your power settings to make sure an unattended machine doesn’t switch off in the middle of the download – like mine did the first time ( facepalm). Creating a project with the default Xamarin template This bit is straightforward to anyone who’s created a new project in Visual Studio 2017 before. Select File -> New Project to open the dialog below, and choose a name for the project: After clicking OK on the dialog above (which chooses a Cross Platform App project type), the dialog will close and open a new project.

I chose to use Xamarin.Forms (which allows developers to create ). I also chose to create a because I only expect my code to be used in my application, rather than shared with other developers as a (you can read more about the differences between Shared Projects and Portable Class Libraries ). When you click OK, the project and files will be created, and a window like the one below will appear with instructions for setting up the Mac Agent. Galaxy s4 usb drivers for mac. (I don’t have a Mac and I’d need Visual Studio Enterprise to use this anyway, so I normally click on the “Don’t show this again” box in the bottom left corner). Finally you’ll be prompted for the versions of Windows that you want the UWP flavour of your project to target.