I installed the latest Azure SDK 2.0 on my development machine, but can't find the "Upgrade" button to upgrade my current project to the latest SDK. Googling how to upgrade show that previous upgrades had an "upgrade" button when going to the Cloud Project -> Properties -> Application Tab and the upgrade button will be next to the Windows Azure Tools Version: October 2012.
Why wouldn't I see the Upgrade button? If I want to manually upgrade my project, what would the process of doing so be?
The current version of the SDK used is SDK 1.8
It turns out when I opened the Web Platform Installer to install the latest SDK, the item that said "...SDK... - Latest" wasn't the latest, but the February 2013 (1.8.1) update instead of the 2.0 SDK. I ended up uninstalling all Azure SDK's, restarted the machine and tried again.
This solved the issue and I was presented with a new option to install the 2.0 SDK. The trick was to uninstall all (including any PowerShell cmd's) Azure related products I could find in Product and Features (Win 8).
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Using Visual Studio 2017 and Xamarin, I installed the Xamarin Android SDK Manager to replace the default Android SDK Manager, which is now deprecated.
Then I updated JDK to the current x64 version and, using the Xamarin SDK Manager, I installed the most recent version of Android NDK.
I now want to update the locations of these SDK's in the Xamarin Android SDK Manager, Locations tab like so:
Yet, every time I restart the tool, the locations are reset. It also keeps telling me there's 2 components to install, yet when I do, it doesn't complain about any failure.
I have tried running as Admin and cannot seem to figure out what is wrong. Log files seem to be non existent. Is there anyone who has the same problem and found a solution?
This was a bug and has been fixed in 0.1.76.
See https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=58319 for details.
Download the newest version here: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Xamarin.XamarinAndroidSDKManager
I created a XamarinForms app with latest version of XamarinForms stable v2.3.3.180 from NuGet in Visual Studio 2015.
Next, In NuGet manager I try to add latest stable version of Google Play Services Location https://www.nuget.org/packages/Xamarin.GooglePlayServices.Location
which currently is 42.1001.0.
But Google Play Services says it needs XamarinForms 2.3.3.193:
After hitting OK, the project explorer shows several references with yellow icons, and compiler gives warnings it couldn't find references:
Xamarin.Forms 23.3.180 has a dependency on the Android Support Library version 23.3.0. You have version 25.1.0 installed which isn't supported by Xamarin Forms.
Drop back your Android Support Library to version 23.3.0 and the issue should go away.
As I was already developing Android apps, JDK 8 and Android SDK are already installed in my machine. But it is in a custom location, not the default one. Using the default Visual Studio installer, I could not install Xamarin without installing JDK and Android SDK again in the default location. Then I tried to install Xamarin.Android manually according to instructions in this page-
https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/android/getting_started/installation/windows/manual_installation/
This page instructed to download and install Xamarin.Android from store. But Xamarin store requires an account, which I assume to manage the paid subscriptions. Given Xamarin is free now, how should I proceed to install Xamarin.Android manually and reuse already installed Android components?
You can contact us at contact#xamarin.com and we will send you the latest download links to the Xamarin.VisualStudio installer which includes both Xamarin.Android and Xamarin.iOS (there is no separate installer per platform for Windows).
The Xamarin.VisualStudio installer does not attempt to install the JDK or Android SDK, so this sounds like what you need.
I have a Xamarin.Forms project based on the shared template and VS2013.
I first have updated my machine from Win 8.1 to Win 10.
After doing that, I have tested the projects to my VS2013 installation. All projects including the .forms project have worked without problems.
Then I have installed VS2015 (unter Win 10).
After doing that, I cannot open my .forms-project unter VS2013 anymore.
Error message (translated to English):
Title: Check changes on project and solution.
This projects are not supported or there are changes needed that influences the project behavior so that the projects can be opened in this version of Visual studio.
Changes are automatically applied, so that the behavior is not influenced.
Not supported:
- Android-project
- iOS-Project
So… it seems as something from the VS2015 installation causes this error message in VS2013.
What do I have to do, to bring my project unter VS2013 to work again?
Done...
First, I have tried to remove the VS2013 add-on package “Get Xamarin” and reinstall the add-on package "Xamarin" (what - I think so - should be the new name of the Xamarin integration SW package).
This has not worked...
The installation then have crashed and showed a form with download-links for each piece of SW (including the Integration-SW Xamarin V3.11.1589).
I then have downloaded only the .msi to V3.11.1589 and started it.
By the setup, I was able to select the VS-Version where to install the SW (selected VS2013 as under VS2015 the SW already was installed).
After the installation, I was able again to open my project under VS2013 without error-message.
As I only had the chance to install the newest IS version and the newest V3.11.1589 have dependencies on the MAC (MAC OS at least Mac OS X 10.10.5, XCode at least 7, Xamarin.iOS at least 9.1), I was not able to connect to the MAC BH and had to update the MAC first to XCode 7.1 and the latest Xamarin Studio (about 4,5 gig to install).
After doing that, I have rebooted the MAC and also my PC, un-paired and re-paired the MAC Build Host with my PC and then was able to work again with my VS2013 installation.
Conclusion:
It seems, as the installation of VS2015 with Xamarin (at least on Win
10) removes an already installed Xamarin on an already installed
VS2013, so that the Xamarin projects cannot be opened anymore.
If VS2015 is installed (with Xamarin option), the Xamarin Integration SW V. V3.11.1589 is
installed to VS2015 (today). This is also the latest “stable”
release on the Xamarin page (but I don’t have found a dedicated
download-link for the .msi on the Xamarin pages).
So… as I think, that for VS2015 the
latest “official” version should be used, I think, you also should
install the latest version for the older VS version (so that you are
able to develop with the “old” VS version but also to migrate your
project to VS2015 what should be the target normally).
But, if you want to use this version (V3.11.1589) you also have to update XCode and Xamarin Studio on the MAC (what - depending on your Internet
connection - can take a few hours).
So… if you have the same problem, I suggest you to:
Search for the .msi to V3.11.1589 and install it (select only your “old” VS-Installation in the setup).
As I don’t have found a download link, I have posted in this thread (I think that an answer from Xamarin with a download-link should be added soon)
Update the MAC to XCode 7.1 and Xamarin Studio to the latest stable version (Xamarin.iOS, Version: 9.1.0.27)
Unpair the Build Host in the MAC
Reboot MAC and your development PC
Re-Pair the Build Host
After doing that, my VS2013 installation (Xamarin.Forms project) now works again.
I am running Xamarin Studio 4.2.4 on Beta update channel on OS X. I have just installed Mono 3.4.0 MDK. After the update, I started Xamarin Studio and it correctly defaults to the new Mono version.
Sadly, it also opened the 'check for updates' dialog and started downloading Mono 3.2.6 MDK.
Is there a way to prevent Xamarin Studio from downloading older versions of Mono, or disable downloading of Mono updates, while still allowing other updates (Xamarin.iOS, etc) to be downloaded?
I went to Xamarin Studio > Check for updates... and disabled the Check automatically option.
I've also joined the "alpha" update channel, which currently supports Mono framework 3.4.0.