Visual Studio can have multiple Extension SDKs which are used to ease the development.
Is Xamarin SDK belongs to one of those Extension SDKs of Visual Studio
IDE?
Xamarin SDK is an open-source framework to develop mobile application. And it is bundled as a free tool within Microsoft Visual Studio's integrated development environment.
To answer your question, Yes Xamarin SDK is a part of SDKs in Visual Studio.
Visual Studio use the NuGet Package Manager to Install and manage packages(Like the Xamarin SDK and other Extension SDKs you mentioned in your question).
Those packages are added to your project and you can use them to develop your project.
Xamarin is installed by default if you create a Xamarin.forms project in Visual-Studio.
Xamarin is shipped as a Visual Studio Workload. Although this documentation page doesn't show the individual SDK packages, they are included in the component: Component.Xamarin.
i.e. Xamarin.Android.Sdk / Xamarin.VisualStudio.Apple.Sdk / etc
If you installed Visual Studio 2019 and watched the installer, you'd see the names of these packages as they progress!
Otherwise you can just go into Visual Studio and click on Help -> About Visual Studio and see all of the various packages!
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I want to know which Mono version my project uses. How can I check it?
In my project I have Mono.Android DLL. I have right clicked on it and review property. It says Runtime Version: 4.0.3. If I go to location of that DLL, I am getting this location: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\Common7\IDE\ReferenceAssemblies\Microsoft\Framework\MonoAndroid\v6.0\Mono.Android.dll
I am confused with what is version of Mono. And what is Mono.Android. Please help me
Following information I got from Help --> About Visual Studio
Microsoft Visual Studio Enterprise 2017
Version 15.5.4
VisualStudio.15.Release/15.5.4+27130.2024
Microsoft .NET Framework
Version 4.7.03056
Installed Version: Enterprise
Visual Basic 2017
Microsoft Visual Basic 2017
Visual C# 2017
Microsoft Visual C# 2017
Mono Debugging for Visual Studio 4.8.4-pre (3fe64e3)
Support for debugging Mono processes with Visual Studio.
NuGet Package Manager 4.5.0
NuGet Package Manager in Visual Studio. For more information about NuGet, visit http://docs.nuget.org/.
Visual Studio Tools for Universal Windows Apps 15.0.27130.2020
The Visual Studio Tools for Universal Windows apps allow you to build a single universal app experience that can reach every device running Windows 10: phone, tablet, PC, and more. It includes the Microsoft Windows 10 Software Development Kit.
VisualStudio.Mac 1.0
Mac Extension for Visual Studio
Xamarin 4.8.0.757 (7f9ec2a)
Visual Studio extension to enable development for Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android.
Xamarin Designer 4.8.188 (c5813fa34)
Visual Studio extension to enable Xamarin Designer tools in Visual Studio.
Xamarin.Android SDK 8.1.3.0 (HEAD/ef47226b7)
Xamarin.Android Reference Assemblies and MSBuild support.
Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Mac SDK 11.6.1.2 (6857dfc)
Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Mac Reference Assemblies and MSBuild support.
You don't have Mono android integrated with visual studio so you can't find it from
Help --> About Visual Studio.
There is no more monoDoid now it becomes Xamarin.Android.
Xamarin.Android applications run within the Mono execution environment which it takes with it onto the device. Thus, an application package is an obvious way in which we can get this done. So mono itself is xamarin.android. Here you are using mono android version v6.0 which you have targeted for your application & Runtime Version: 4.0.3 is your version of .NET runtime assembly.
Mono- The Mono framework is an open source implementation of Microsoft’s .NET Framework based on the open standards for the C# language and the Common Language Runtime.
The Mono project has been in active development for over a decade and is used - behind the scenes - in many products. Developer used to use it with Visual Studio 2010.
For more information visit this & this
Hope it help you.
I'm trying to install Visual Studio 2017 with Xamarin using its online installer. But when I tick "Mobile development with .NET" under Workloads it selects an Android SDK setup as well. If I try to untick it (Android SDK setup) then Xamarin will also be unticked.
How can I install only Xamarin without any Android SDKs for Visual Studio 2017?
If you are freshly installing Visual Studio 2017, rather than checking Mobile development with .NET under Workloads you have to tick Xamarin under Individual Components in the installer window.
If you had already installed Visual Studio 17 without Xamarin, then go to,
Control Panel > Programs > Programs and Features
Select Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 and click on Change. In the appeared Window, select Modify under your specific Visual Studio version listed.
Go to the Individual components tab, now you can select only Xamarin and no other components will be attached to it.
This was my selections under Individual Components to install Xamarin without android. The Green Ticks would be a sufficiently enough selection.
I just download xamarin through this link
https://www.xamarin.com/download with (I already have Visual Studio installed) NO
but it seems only installed visual studio for me, as i see some tutorial on youtube there is a xamarin studio.
https://youtu.be/6Jx7ZNZL9dk?list=PLCuRg51-gw5VqYchUekCqxUS9hEZkDf6l&t=168
But it seems xamarin studio is not installed for my computer, anyone know where is xamarin studio and how to install it?
As per the Xamarin FAQ page:
Do you still offer Xamarin Studio on Windows?
Xamarin Studio is no longer included with our Windows installer. We
encourage Windows developers to move to Visual Studio.
https://www.xamarin.com/faq#xpq6
We watched a Xamarin installation video by Jason D, downloaded XamarinInstaller.exe version3.6 and ran it. We noticed that unlike the video, we are only seeing the Andriod SDK and the Xamarin for Visual Studio components in our options and missing the GTK# and Xamarin Studio. The install finished successfully so we don't know whether we have everything we need or not.
The reason we think this is because when we launch VS, we don't see any Xamarin.Forms type projects, for example.
Can someone tell us if we may be missing some pieces?
Thanks in advance for any help.
1.- Remove all
2.- instal VisualStudio 2015
3.- run xamarin installer
Did you installed the extension correctly that binds xamarin with visual studio?
Open Control Panel > Programs, search for your edition of Visual Studio and then click the Change/Uninstall button at the top of the window. Wait for a moment while the Visual Studio Installer launches, and then repair the installation.
Updated: I have followed the below steps for Visual studio 2015. Hope that it will work for other versions of Visual studio.
To install Xamarin framework into Visual studio successfully, please follow the below steps,
Visual studio 2015 community edition installation:
To download VS2015 Community edition ISO (Size is around 7GB), check
http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/2015/07/download-visualstudio-2015.html
To install VS2015 Community edition, please follow the below link, http://www.howtosolutions.net/2015/08/solving-installation-is-stuck-problem-in-visual-studio-community-edition/
Offline installation would be more faster (around 1 to 2 hours).
If any further issue comes, repair MS Visual C++ 2015 redistributable.
Finally, VS 2015 will be installed quickly.
Xamarin framework Installation:
To download Xamarin, visit https://www.xamarin.com/download
You can download Xamarin Installer.
Launch Xamarin installer, it will download and install the below components,
Java 8.
Android SDK, NDK and emulator images.
Xamarin Framework.
To store the setup of components, launch Xamarin installer and while it starts downloading, disconnect internet.
It will abort and open Manual installation instructions. Connect to internet again and you can save setup.exe for all components from manual wizard and install it for later purpose.
After Xamarin is installed, launch Visual studio 2015.
You can create Xamarin projects, under Visual C# -> Cross platform option.
Revert back for queries, if any.
I have installed Visual Studio 2015 Professional and would like to know how/what should I download from the Xamarin website to integrate into VS 2015 Pro to develop Android apps with Xamarin.
Just download the universal installer from their website
During Visual Studio installation, you have the option to select C#/.NET(Xamarin) under Cross-Platform Development.
You can Modify/Repair the Visual Studio install and select Xamarin and any other components (e.g. Android SDK if it was not selected previously, although they can also be installed separately) and update the installation. Install details/reference here