Has anyone encountered this error when adding the Xamarin.Forms package through the "Add NuGet package" option?
PS I'm using Xamarin Studio and I only encounter this with Windows.
Error message is:
Could not install package 'Xamarin.Forms 2.2.0.31'. You are trying to
install this package into a project that targets
'.NETFramework,Version=v4.5,Profile=Profile78', but the package does
not contain any assembly references or content files that are
compatible with that framework.
Here is the screenshot
You are having a profile which has portable class Profile78.Profiles are the type of your portable class where you select the target projects which can use your PCL. The more you select the less functionality can be provided.
You need to change it to another one. Usually most classes (including Xamarin.Forms) are supporting Profile111. Profile111 is a profile which does not support Silverlight in contast du Profile78. So you need to go to Properties and deselect Windows Phone Silverlight and Silverlight. You can select everything else (.Net 4.5, Windows 8, Windows Phone 8.1, Android, iOS/iOS classic and ASP.NET Core 1).
Then try adding Xamarin.Forms again.
You can see more information with a list of all(?) profiles here.
Here you see how to change in Visual Studio project Properties:
And here in Xamarin Studio project Option:
The problem is that you do not have the Portable Class Library (PCL) profiles installed on Windows. Xamarin.Forms 2.2.0.31 supports Profile78 so changing it to Profile111 will not fix the problem.
The error message itself indicates that this is the problem since it refers to Profile78. If the NuGet package was really incompatible then NuGet would show the frameworks in the PCL profile in its error message not the profile number. If I try to install Xamarin.Forms 2.2.0.31 into a PCL project that targets Profile1 which is not supported by Xamarin.Forms then I get an error:
Could not install package 'Xamarin.Forms 2.2.0.31'. You are trying to install this package into a project that targets 'portable-net40+sl40+win+wp+Xbox40', but the package does not contain any assembly references or content files that are compatible with that framework. For more information, contact the package author.
Note that Profile1 is not mentioned.
There are detailed instructions on installing Portable Class Libraries for Xamarin Studio which I will summarize here:
To install the Portable Class Libraries on Windows you have three options:
Install Visual Studio 2013 (full or Express version). Update 2 or
above is required.
Install the Portable Library Tools and the Portable Library Reference Assemblies 4.6.
Install the Portable Library Tools and copy the .NETPortable directory from Mono over to Windows.
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I'm not sure if this is a Visual Studio issue or a genuine incompatibility but trying to install SocketIoClientDotNet into a Xamarin forms PCL project I get
Could not install package 'SocketIoClientDotNet 1.0.6'. You are trying to install this package into a project that targets '.NETPortable,Version=v4.5,Profile=Profile7', but the package does not contain any assembly references or content files that are compatible with that framework. For more information, contact the package author.
The project targets .NetFramework 4.5 which seems to be supported by the package - what could be going wrong here?
I suggest you add the following packages in your .Droid and .iOS projects (and not in the "common" project):
EngineIoClientDotNet (v.0.9.22)
SocketIoClientDotNet (v.0.9.13)
WebSocket4Net (v.0.14.1)
These versions of packages were the stablest 6 months ago when I had to use sockets in my project. If you want more information don't hesitate to ask me!
I'm new to mobile development & Xamarin. I'm trying to install a 3rd party nuget package "BottomNavigationBar" to my portable project in Xamarin solution. But facing the below error while doing so.
Could not install package 'Xamarin.Android.Support.Compat 24.2.1'. You are trying to install this package into a project that targets '.NETPortable,Version=v4.5,Profile=Profile259', but the package does not contain any assembly references or content files that are compatible with that framework. For more information, contact the package author.
I'm having Xamarin.Forms version 2.3.4.247, with Android target framework "Android 7(Nougat)". And I have Android SDK installed with API 24.
Any help is appreciated.
As SushiHangover says this component targets Xamarin.Android only so it will be impossible to install in the PCL project.
You should use a similiar plugin that targets Xamarin.Form, this plugin is called: BottomNavigationBar.XF
You can see their source code here: https://github.com/thrive-now/BottomNavigationBarXF
This suggested Nuget Client will not install on Visual Studio 2017 for Mac. When I attempt to install, I receive the following error message:
"Could not install package 'Microsoft.OData.Edm 6.0.0'. You are trying to install this package into a project that targets '.NETPortable,Version=v4.5,Profile=Profile111', but the package does not contain any assembly references or content files that are compatible with that framework. For more information, contact the package author."
The link to this Nuget package is https://components.xamarin.com/view/simple.odata.client.
When trying to install other Nuget packages I receive a similar error message naming a different package as the error source.
It looks like you're mixing a couple of things. The Simple.OData.Client package is not the Microsoft.OData.Edm package. Also you say you link to a NuGet package, put you link to the Xamarin Component Store.
Furthermore, I think you should read up on what PCLs are and how to use them. When I look at the NuGet page for the Microsoft.OData.Edm package I see that it does not support iOS and Android. So, you will never be able to install it to a PCL which targets one of these platforms. You should, however, be able to install the Simple.OData.Client package according to the NuGet page.
PCLs have a certain profile. When you right-click and go to the properties of a PCL library, you can check all platforms that you want it to support. Each combination of platforms have a certain profile, specified by a three digit number, like 111 or 259. The parts of the .NET framework that are available to you, are an intersection of the functionalities that are available on all targeted platforms. If a functionality is supported by iOS but not on Android, it's not supported in your PCL.
This is also why NuGets need to support the specific profile that you are targeting, because it can only use the methods that are available in it.
Following this tutorial I'm trying to install MvvmCross.HotTuna.MvvmCrossLibraries in Core project. The latest version of this library 'MvvmCross.HotTuna.MvvmCrossLibraries 4.0.0-beta3'.
After adding Nuget Package I have the following error:
Could not install package 'MvvmCross.HotTuna.MvvmCrossLibraries 4.0.0-beta3'. You are trying to install this package into a project that targets '.NETPortable,Version=v4.0,Profile=Profile14', but the package does not contain any assembly references or content files that are compatible with that framework. For more information, contact the package author.
Does anyone know what the problem is?
Answer to original question:
MvvmCross is not available for ASP.NET. You need to use it in one of the compatible frameworks like UWP, Xamarin.Android, Xamarin.iOS or a PCL.
Updated Question:
MvvmCross uses at least .NET 4.5 with profile 259. Switch to those to be able to install the libraries.
I'm trying to understand why I'm getting the following errors when running tests in Xamarin Studio 5.9.1 (build 3) on OS X.
System.IO.FileNotFoundException : Could not load file or assembly 'System.Net.Http, Version=1.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies.
System.TypeLoadException : A type load exception has occurred.
All projects build successfully and the same tests run just fine in Visual Studio on Windows using the same solution.
I am seeing a warning when building the test project on OS X, despite having already installed and added the reference.
All projects referencing MyProject.fsproj must install nuget package Microsoft.Bcl.Build. For more information, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=317569.
I still don't know why Xamarin behaves differently than Visual Studio, but the root cause was that the test project was targeting .Net 4.5 whereas the main project was targeting .Net 4.0
Thanks to #7sharp9 for the help.
Different platforms (Android, iOS, Desktop) have different System.Net.Http.dll binaries - compiled from the same source, but each version references the mscorlib.dll (and other base-class libraries) from the platform it was built against.
This is not a problem when you use it in an application - Xamarin Studio will automatically pick the right version for you - but you can't use it in a Portable Class Library.
Microsoft initially implemented HttpClient as part of .NET 4.5, but then released a portable version of it (with a Windows-only license). If I understand this correctly, then that's mostly the same API as in .NET 4.5 plus a few minor additions (I think they added gzip compression, which Mono's version currently doesn't).
For Xamarin / Mono, all we need to do to create an open-source version of this library is to take our existing sources and compile them against the portable profile. I haven't tried this yet, but this could be as easy as editing the .csproj file and replacing the .
Also would suggest that you install HttpClient NuGet package
System.Net.Http.HttpClient is available directly from the latest version of Xamarin.
Simply check for updates from Xamarin Studio ;-)