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Reputation: 399

Xamarin iOS Deployment failes silently

I have recently upgraded to VS 15.5.1 and suddenly I cannot deploy on iOS anymore. There is nothing in the standard output only in the Xamarin log files I could find a stack trace:

Xamarin.VisualStudio.IOS.MonoTouchFlavoredProject|Error|0|An error occurred while lauching Application for debugging System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at Xamarin.MacDev.ManifestExtensions.GetCFBundleIdentifier(PDictionary dict) in C:\d\lanes\5409\6575bd11\source\xamarinvs\External\Xamarin.MacDev\Xamarin.MacDev\ManifestExtensions.cs:line 119 at Xamarin.VisualStudio.IOS.MonoTouchFlavoredProject.GetRunSessionInfo(MonoTouchDevice device) in C:\d\lanes\5409\6575bd11\source\xamarinvs\src\Core\VisualStudio.IOS\ProjectSystem\MonoTouchFlavoredProject.cs:line 1035 at Xamarin.VisualStudio.IOS.MonoTouchFlavoredProject.CreateDebuggerStartInfo(MonoTouchDevice device, Int32 debugPort) in C:\d\lanes\5409\6575bd11\source\xamarinvs\src\Core\VisualStudio.IOS\ProjectSystem\MonoTouchFlavoredProject.cs:line 907 at Xamarin.VisualStudio.IOS.MonoTouchFlavoredProject.StartDebugging(MonoTouchDevice device, IProgressReport progress, MonoDebuggerLauncher debug_session) in C:\d\lanes\5409\6575bd11\source\xamarinvs\src\Core\VisualStudio.IOS\ProjectSystem\MonoTouchFlavoredProject.cs:line 980 at Xamarin.VisualStudio.IOS.MonoTouchFlavoredProject.<>c__DisplayClass75_0.b__0() in C:\d\lanes\5409\6575bd11\source\xamarinvs\src\Core\VisualStudio.IOS\ProjectSystem\MonoTouchFlavoredProject.cs:line 955

This applies to simmulator and device deployments. It seems like it fails to retrieve the BundleIdentifier from the plist, but it is there and deploying worked just fine with the last VS version. Does somebody have a clue?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 163

Answers (1)

charL
charL

Reputation: 399

we had a problem in our iOS .proj file because we had different .plist files for dev and release:

<None Include="Info_debug.plist" Condition="'$(Configuration)' == 'Debug'">   <SubType>Designer</SubType>   <LogicalName>Info.plist</LogicalName> </None> <None Include="Info_release.plist" Condition="'$(Configuration)' == 'Release'">   <SubType>Designer</SubType>   <LogicalName>Info.plist</LogicalName> </None>

somehow either the logicalname property does not work anymore or the Condition makes some trouble, so we hotfixed it to the following:

<None Include="Info.plist" />

Now it works again...

Upvotes: 1

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