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Bruno Peres
Bruno Peres

Reputation: 16375

Which PCL profile should I use in my Xamarin.Forms app?

I'm new in Xamarin, Xamarin.Forms and C# platform.

I'm starting the development of an app that should support Android and iOS devices. I'm using a PCL project for code sharing. Currently this project is using the profile111 because Visual Studio has selected it by default for me. But when I try to install some NuGet packages I'm getting a message saying the package is not compatible. Something like:

Could not install package 'DocsBrStandard 2.0.1'. 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.

I believe this message is related with the profile I'm using, right?

So which profile should I use for my app that should support only iOS and Android devices? Is profile111 the more appropriate for this scenario?

At least, how can I identify if a package is compatible or not with my Xamarin.Forms app?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 220

Answers (1)

yiev
yiev

Reputation: 126

You need to target .NET Standard to be able to use the DocsBrStandard package. So you can't work with profile based PCL if you want to use that package.

Check out this article about targeting .NET Standard with Xamarin.Forms:
https://blog.xamarin.com/building-xamarin-forms-apps-net-standard/

Upvotes: 2

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