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Adam
Adam

Reputation: 4780

Missing Visual Studio Project Template for Xamarin Shared Project

Visual Studio 2013 with update 4 does not show a shared project template. I only have the Xamarin forms project templates. I just installed a fresh update of Xamarin this morning. Based on what I've found so far, this used to be an issue with VS update 2. Any idea on how to get shared project template to show up?

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 1698

Answers (1)

Adam
Adam

Reputation: 4780

From Xamarin Support:

No, there's no optional bits missing. I think Visual Studio Update 4 removed the shared project template. It's a Microsoft template, not a Xamarin one. You can still create a Xamarin.Forms app with a Shared Project (that's our template), but they no longer allow you to create an independent shared project.

So, three ways to create one now if you are using Visual Studio 2013:

1) Switch to Xamarin Studio and create it there and then close it and reopen the solution in VS. VS will recognize the project, it just doesn't have a template to create it anymore. This is probably the easiest approach.

2) Install the "Shared Project Template" from the Online templates - this is a 3rd party template; I've not tried it but if you want to stay in VS and have the template, it's worth a shot.

3) Create either a Universal Windows Store app (which uses a Shared Proejct), or a Xamarin.Forms app and then delete all the other projects :)

Alternatively, Visual Studio 2015 (currently in CTP); last time I checked, it still has the project template - you can install that side-by-side with VS2013 and use it as your IDE.

Upvotes: 0

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