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willem
willem

Reputation: 27027

Can Xamarin's Monotouch.dll be referenced directly?

I've started working on a Xamarin solution (a brown-field project) in Visual Studio 2013.

One of the projects is missing a reference to monotouch.dll.

I see that the DLL can be found in the following path on my machine, but don't know if I should be referencing it directly:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\MonoTouch\v1.0

I checked the GAC for the assembly and NuGet as well, but couldn't find it there.

Is it OK to reference monotouch.dll from the above folder path? Or should it be referenced another way?

Note that I have Xamarin 3.8 installed, with Xamarin.iOS 8.4. Also note that we don't want to switch to the Unified API just yet, hence the reliance on monotouch.dll

Upvotes: 0

Views: 644

Answers (2)

willem
willem

Reputation: 27027

@Rdavisau's answer is correct, but I also disovered what went wrong. I opened the old VS2010 project in VS2013, and I think VS2013 changed my target framework references on my projects.

I fixed this by editing the CSProj file and deleting the default CSharp targets:

And only keeping the Xamarin targets:

When doing this, the Monotouch.dll is automatically referenced in the right place.

Upvotes: 0

rdavisau
rdavisau

Reputation: 895

Yes. If you create a new Classic API project you will see that monotouch.dll is referenced from that path.

Upvotes: 1

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