Developers of iOS apps are entitled to install the iOS SDK on computers running Microsoft Windows, provided they are Apple-branded (in extenso: running Boot Camp). They may perfectly choose to develop iOS apps on the Windows side of their Apple-branded computer rather than using the Xcode software on macOS, for personal convenience reasons.
Today we are releasing the following builds as Xcode 9 Web Preview 2. These versions include preview Xamarin SDK bindings and preview IDE compatibility for Apple’s. Note that these are standalone download links that are not published in the Xamarin updater channels. As a result, Visual Studio for Mac and Visual Studio 2015 on Windows will offer “updates” back to the current published updater channel versions when you have these versions installed.
You will need to disregard those notifications if you wish to keep using these Xcode 9 support previews. The Xcode 9 features will be added to the Xamarin updater channels in the future, after Apple publishes the first non-preview version of Xcode 9 to the App Store. Any bug reports about these preview Xamarin bindings are much appreciated! Products Released.
Xamarin.iOS 10.99.1.27. Xamarin.Mac 3.99.1.27. Preview IDE compatibility packages for Mac and Visual Studio 2015. Visual Studio for Mac 7.1.0.1277. Xamarin.VS 4.6.0.337 (Visual Studio 2015). Preview IDE compatibility installation steps for Visual Studio 2017 Preview.
Xamarin.VS 4.6.0.328 (for Visual Studio 2017 Preview). Ensure that you have installed with the Mobile development with.NET workload.
(Note that Visual Studio 2017 Preview installs as an additional version alongside your existing Visual Studio 2017 non-preview version.). Go to Tools Extensions and Updates. Open the Online Visual Studio Marketplace tab. Search for Xamarin Updater and press Download. Created by: Xamarin. Restart Visual Studio (as instructed). Go to Tools Options Extensions and Updates.
Click the Add button next to the Additional Extension Galleries list. Under the Name field enter Xamarin Xcode 9 Preview (or another name that you prefer).
Under the URL field type in xvs://xcode9-preview/. Click OK to save the changes.
Navigate to Tools Extensions and Updates Updates Xamarin Xcode 9 Preview and press Update for each item to download all the available updates. Once all of the downloads are complete, close Visual Studio. The VSIX Installer program will launch automatically to install the components.
Start Visual Studio again. Uninstall steps for Visual Studio 2017 Preview If you wish to switch back from the Xcode 9 support previews to the default Xamarin versions bundled in Visual Studio 2017 Preview, use the to un-install, and then re-install, the Mobile development with.NET (Xamarin) workload. We are releasing the fifth preview of our next major release, called 15.3. This release is our stable release candidate and includes our next preview of Visual Studio for Mac. Note that this Beta version is a smaller release compared to the. In particular, it does not include the, Docker, Azure Functions, or Xamarin IoT preview features announced at Build.
Please stay on the Alpha channel if you wish to continue to preview those features. As this is a Beta build, there are some known issues and the possibility of new issues being found during testing. Of course, additional bug reports are still welcome for these preview versions. If you see any suspicious behavior that you wish to report, please file a quick bug.
If you notice an error in this blog post or have trouble downloading one of the installer packages, please let us know in the corresponding forum thread. Forum Thread – Please check out the product release notes to see all the fixes and known issues for this release. Products Released. Visual Studio for Mac 7.1.0.1289. Xamarin.VisualStudio 4.6.0.293. Xamarin.iOS 10.12.0.14. Xamarin.Android 7.4.0.17.
Xamarin.Mac 3.6.0.13. Mono Framework 5.2.0.213.
iOS Simulator on Windows 1.1.1.1. Xamarin Profiler 1.5.5.10. Installing the Beta and switching back to Stable You can install this new Beta version or switch back to the current Stable version by changing.
15.3 Release Dates Preview 1 – Preview 2 – Preview 3 – Preview 4 – Preview 5 – This Release! Today we are releasing the following builds as Xcode 9 Web Preview 1. These versions include preview Xamarin SDK bindings and preview IDE compatibility for Apple’s.
Note that these are standalone download links that are not published in the Xamarin updater channels. As a result, Visual Studio for Mac and Visual Studio 2015 on Windows will offer “updates” back to the current published updater channel versions when you have these versions installed. You will need to disregard those notifications if you wish to keep using these Xcode 9 support previews. Any bug reports about these preview Xamarin bindings are much appreciated! Products Released. Xamarin.iOS 10.99.0.93. Xamarin.Mac 3.99.0.93.
Preview IDE compatibility packages for Mac and Visual Studio 2015. Visual Studio for Mac 7.1.0.1267. Xamarin.VS 4.6.0.328 (Visual Studio 2015). Preview IDE compatibility installation steps for Visual Studio 2017 Preview. Xamarin.VS 4.6.0.328 (for Visual Studio 2017 Preview). Ensure that you have installed with the Mobile development with.NET workload. (Note that Visual Studio 2017 Preview installs as an additional version alongside your existing Visual Studio 2017 non-preview version.).
Go to Tools Extensions and Updates. Open the Online Visual Studio Marketplace tab. Search for Xamarin Updater and press Download.
Created by: Xamarin. Restart Visual Studio (as instructed). Go to Tools Options Extensions and Updates. Click the Add button next to the Additional Extension Galleries list. Under the Name field enter Xamarin Xcode 9 Preview (or another name that you prefer). Under the URL field type in xvs://xcode9-preview/. Click OK to save the changes.
Navigate to Tools Extensions and Updates Updates Xamarin Xcode 9 Preview and press Update for each item to download all the available updates. Once all of the downloads are complete, close Visual Studio. The VSIX Installer program will launch automatically to install the components. Start Visual Studio again.
Uninstall steps for Visual Studio 2017 Preview If you wish to switch back from the Xcode 9 support previews to the default Xamarin versions bundled in Visual Studio 2017 Preview, use the to un-install, and then re-install, the Mobile development with.NET (Xamarin) workload. We are releasing the fourth preview of our next major release, called 15.3. This release is our stable release candidate and includes our next preview of Visual Studio for Mac.
Note that this Beta version is a smaller release compared to the. In particular, it does not include the, Docker, Azure Functions, or Xamarin IoT preview features announced at Build. Please stay on the Alpha channel if you wish to continue to preview those features. As this is a Beta build, there are some known issues and the possibility of new issues being found during testing.
Of course, additional bug reports are still welcome for these preview versions. If you see any suspicious behavior that you wish to report, please file a quick bug.
If you notice an error in this blog post or have trouble downloading one of the installer packages, please let us know in the corresponding forum thread. Forum Thread – Please check out the product release notes to see all the fixes and known issues for this release. Highlighted Known Issues. Xamarin.VisualStudio – “Unable to copy file “obj Debug App1.dll” to “bin Debug App1.dll”. The process cannot access the file ‘bin Debug App1.dll’ because it is being used by another process.” and “Exceeded retry count of 10. This issue originally appeared in the Xamarin 15.2 release and was fixed in the Xamarin 15.2.2 release.
Unfortunately, the fix was accidentally omitted from these Xamarin 15.3 release preview builds. It will be included in the next published set of builds. Products Released. Visual Studio for Mac 7.1.0.1281. Xamarin.VS 4.6.0.289. Xamarin.iOS 10.12.0.14.
Xamarin.Android 7.4.0.15. Xamarin.Mac 3.6.0.13. Mono Framework 5.2.0.209. iOS Simulator on Windows 1.1.0.77. Xamarin Profiler 1.5.5.10.
Installing the Beta and switching back to Stable You can install this new Beta version or switch back to the current Stable version by changing. 15.3 Release Dates Preview 1 – Preview 2 – Preview 3 – Preview 4 – This Release! We are releasing the third preview of our next major release, called 15.3. This release is our stable release candidate and includes our next preview of Visual Studio for Mac. Note that this Beta version is a smaller release compared to the. In particular, it does not include the, Docker, Azure Functions, or Xamarin IoT preview features announced at Build.
Please stay on the Alpha channel if you wish to continue to preview those features. Note also that the Xamarin extension versions included in the latest Visual Studio 2017 Preview version 15.3.0 Preview 3 are for the moment still the earlier Beta versions from June 26. The new matching Xamarin versions will be integrated into the Visual Studio Installer at a future date that follows the upstream VS 2017 Preview release schedule.
As this is a Beta build, there are some known issues and the possibility of new issues being found during testing. Of course, additional bug reports are still welcome for these preview versions.
If you see any suspicious behavior that you wish to report, please file a quick bug. If you notice an error in this blog post or have trouble downloading one of the installer packages, please let us know in the corresponding forum thread. Forum Thread – Please check out the product release notes to see all the fixes and known issues for this release. Products Released.
Visual Studio for Mac 7.1.0.1258. Xamarin.VS 4.6.0.279. Xamarin.iOS 10.12.0.12. Xamarin.Android 7.4.0.13. Xamarin.Mac 3.6.0.11. Mono Framework 5.2.0.196. iOS Simulator on Windows 1.1.0.73.
Xamarin Profiler 1.5.5.8. Installing the Beta and switching back to Stable You can install this new Beta version or switch back to the current Stable version by changing.
Upcoming Release Dates Preview 1 – Preview 2 – Preview 3 – This Release! We are releasing the second preview of our next major release, called 15.3. This release includes our next preview of Visual Studio for Mac.
Note that this Beta version is a smaller release compared to the. In particular, it does not include the, Docker, Azure Functions, or Xamarin IoT preview features announced at Build. Please stay on the Alpha channel if you wish to continue to preview those features. Update for June 26: This release is now available as part of the update for Visual Studio 2017 Preview as well as in the Xamarin. As this is a Beta build, there are some known issues and the possibility of new issues being found during testing. Of course, additional bug reports are still welcome for these preview versions.
If you see any suspicious behavior that you wish to report, please file a quick bug. If you notice an error in this blog post or have trouble downloading one of the installer packages, please let us know in the corresponding forum thread. Forum Thread – Please check out the product release notes to see all the fixes and known issues for this release.
Products Released. Visual Studio for Mac 7.1.0.1178. Xamarin.VS 4.6.0.240.
Xamarin.iOS 10.12.0.5. Xamarin.Android 7.4.0.2. Xamarin.Mac 3.6.0.4. Mono Framework 5.2.0.179.
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iOS Simulator on Windows 1.1.0.55. Xamarin Profiler 1.5.5.6. Installing the Beta and switching back to Stable You can install this new Beta version or switch back to the current Stable version by changing.
Upcoming Release Dates Preview 1 – Preview 2 – This Release. In case it might be useful for reference, here is an update on the of commonly seen issues from the Xamarin 15.2 release. Many of those issues are now resolved in the. This updated list gives the latest statuses and workarounds for a few remaining issues from the and the, with a focus on bug reports that have several subscribed users.
Xamarin.VisualStudio, Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android “Could not load file or assembly ‘Mono.Posix, Version=2.0.0.0, '” in some cases when attempting to start debugging with breakpoints set. This happens because the Mono.Posix.dll file is missing from the Xamarin.VisualStudio installer. Temporary workaround:. Download the missing file and unzip the archive. Right-click the Mono.Posix.dll file in Explorer and select Properties. Check the Digital Signatures tab to ensure the file shows a valid Xamarin Inc. At the bottom of the General tab, if an Unblock checkbox appears, enable it and select OK.
(This checkbox appears depending on how the file was downloaded.). For Visual Studio 2017, copy the Mono.Posix.dll file into the “Xamarin.VisualStudio” extension directory. For example, for a default installation of the Enterprise edition, copy the file into: C: Program Files (x86) Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise Common7 IDE Extensions Xamarin.VisualStudio. For Visual Studio 2015, copy the file into the “Xamarin Xamarin” extension directory: C: Program Files (x86) Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0 Common7 IDE Extensions Xamarin Xamarin. Quit and restart Visual Studio. If these steps to do not resolve the issue in your environment, please see the for information about enabling “Fusion logging” (assembly binding logging) and submitting a new bug report for further investigation.
and Xamarin.VisualStudio, Xamarin.iOS Breakpoints are non-functional and exception call stacks show user code as “External Code” in certain scenarios when debugging on iOS devices and simulators with the linker enabled. Possible temporary workaround: Change the DebugType to portable to more closely match the build behavior of Visual Studio for Mac. Open each project.csproj file in a text editor. For example, right-click each project in the Solution Explorer and select Unload Project, and then right-click it again and select Edit. Under the PropertyGroup for the “Debug AnyCPU” configuration, set: portable. Save the changes and reload the projects. Clean the solution and manually delete the “bin” and “obj” folders to remove any left-over.mdb debugger symbol files.
If any of the projects use async partial methods, install the pre-release version 2.3.0-beta1 NuGet package (or higher) into all of the projects (to fix ). Mono, Xamarin.Android, Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Mac Tracking bug for upstream Roslyn issue 17934: “error MSB6006: “csc.exe” exited with code 1″ due to KeyNotFoundException when compiling projects that include async partial methods. Possible temporary workaround: Install the pre-release version 2.3.0-beta1 NuGet package (or higher) into all of the projects to get the pre-release Roslyn C# compiler that includes the fix. Alternate temporary workaround: Switch back to mcs and xbuild. Add the following PropertyGroup element to the bottom of the.csproj file for your app project just before the closing tag: mcs.exe. Disable Visual Studio Preferences Build Build with MSBuild instead of xbuild. (This setting is also available in Xamarin Studio 6.3.
It is disabled by default in Xamarin Studio, but some users might have enabled it by hand in the past.). Close and reopen the solution to ensure the new setting is used. Clean and rebuild the project. Xamarin.VisualStudio In certain environments, Visual Studio crashes often due to an unhandled exception in a Zeroconf method called by Xamarin.VisualStudio.ZeroConf.MacDiscoveryService. Candidate fix: A candidate fix for this issue is available in the latest Visual Studio 2017 version and the. We are releasing a service release for our current major release called 15.2, into the Beta and Stable channels. Update for May 30: This release is now available in the Xamarin and as part of the for Visual Studio 2017.
If you notice an error in this blog post or have trouble downloading one of the installer packages, please let us know in the corresponding forum thread. Forum Thread – Updating from Xamarin Studio to Visual Studio for Mac is now generally available as at the Microsoft Build conference. It is the recommended environment for Xamarin developers on Mac moving forward. To get started with Visual Studio on Mac, download and run the. It will install Visual Studio for Mac as a new app alongside Xamarin Studio. Products Released. Visual Studio for Mac 7.0.1.24.
Xamarin.VS 4.5.0.475. Xamarin.iOS 10.10.0.36. Xamarin.Android 7.3.1.1. Xamarin.Mac 3.4.0.36. Mono Framework 5.0.1.1.
Installing You can get this latest version by checking for updates on the Stable and in Visual Studio 2017 by installing Visual Studio 2017 version. Previous Versions. For Mac the previous versions and download locations are:. Xamarin.iOS 10.10.0.33. Xamarin.Android 7.3.0-13. Xamarin.Mac 3.4.0.33. Mono Framework MDK 5.0.0.100,.
For Windows the previous versions and download locations are:. Xamarin.VisualStudio 4.5.0.443 for Visual Studio 2015 and lowerUpcoming Release Dates Stable – Stable 2 – This Release! In case it might be useful for reference, here is an in-progress list of some commonly seen issues being tracked by the Xamarin team for the. The list is sorted approximately by the number of users subscribed to each bug report, and in some cases also by additional hand-tallying. The list focuses on issues where the pattern of reports suggests a change in behavior compared to the Xamarin 15.1 release.
This list is not exhaustive: It does not include every issue user-submitted issue reported since the time of the Xamarin 15.2 release. and Xamarin.VisualStudio Significant increase in the chances of hitting “Unable to copy file “obj Debug App1.dll” to “bin Debug App1.dll”. The process cannot access the file ‘bin Debug App1.dll’ because it is being used by another process.” and “Exceeded retry count of 10. Under investigation. A few possible temporary workarounds are discussed on the bug report.
One comment on the report also indicates that installing and using the version 15.3 might resolve the issue. Mono, Xamarin.Android, Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Mac Tracking bug for upstream Roslyn issue 17934: “error MSB6006: “csc.exe” exited with code 1″ due to KeyNotFoundException when compiling projects that include async partial methods. Integration of the upstream Roslyn fix is in-progress.
Partial temporary workaround: Switch back to mcs and xbuild (see additional details below). Xamarin.VisualStudio “Can not resolve reference: C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v4.0.30319/de/mscorlib.resources.dll” when building or breakpoints fail to hit on iOS devices when debugging. Now RESOLVED in the source code, and will be included in an upcoming release. Workaround: See. Xamarin.Android “System.NotSupportedException: Stack walks are not supported on this platform – System.Reflection.MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod” when attempting to debug on x8664 Android emulators. Now RESOLVED in the source code, and will be included in an upcoming release.
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Partial temporary workaround: Use an x86 Android emulator rather than an x8664 Android emulator. Xamarin.Forms “MTOUCH: error MT2001: Could not link assemblies.” when attempting to link Xamarin.Forms projects that use XamlC on iOS because XamlC does not update the new default portable.pdb debug symbol files. Now RESOLVED in the source code, and will be included in an upcoming release of Xamarin.Forms.
Possible temporary workaround: Disable XamlC. Alternate possible temporary workaround: Switch back to mcs and xbuild (see additional details below). Xamarin.Android Performance degradation when using System.Linq.Expressions in Xamarin.Android 7.3. A candidate change has been added and will be included in an upcoming release of Xamarin.Android.
and Xamarin.Android App exits on launch or fails to hit breakpoints when debugging due to change in default build behavior when the Optimize MSBuild property is not explicitly set. Now RESOLVED in the source code, and will be included in an upcoming release.
Workaround: Explicitly set the Optimize property to False in the.csproj file. See the answer on the for a few additional details. Compatibility change: Xamarin Studio Breakpoints no longer work for certain Xamarin project types and scenarios in Xamarin Studio 6.3 due incomplete support for the new default portable.pdb format generated by Mono 5.0. Recommended solution: Install and use now that it is and the recommended environment for Xamarin development on Mac. Alternate possible temporary workaround: Switch back to mcs and xbuild (see additional details below). Xamarin.VisualStudio MultiDex is disabled after saving changes to Xamarin.Android project due to incorrect MSBuild property name. Now RESOLVED in the source code, and will be included in an upcoming release.
Workaround: In the.csproj file, replace all occurrences of AndroidEnableMultipleDex with the correct property name AndroidEnableMultiDex using a text editor. Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.VisualStudio “The item “C.nuget packages Autofac 4.5.0 lib netstandard1.1 Autofac.dll” in item list “ReferenceCopyLocalPaths” does not define a value for metadata “ResolvedFrom””. Under investigation. A few possible temporary workarounds are discussed on the bug report.
A possible temporary workaround is mentioned on the bug report. Temporarily switching back to mcs and xbuild The Xamarin 15.2 release includes, which enables the Roslyn C# compiler by default and deprecates the use of xbuild in favor of. For the Xamarin toolchain, this adds C# 7 support and changes the default debugging symbol format from.mdb files to portable.pdb files. And Visual Studio for Mac uses msbuild by default when building projects.
The change from mcs to csc and xbuild to msbuild is related to several of the issues listed above. One potential workaround in those cases is to switch back to the earlier combination of mcs and xbuild without downgrading Mono or the Xamarin toolchain. As a caution, this is not a tested scenario, so although this approach has been reported to work well so far, it does still have a chance of hitting other secondary errors. Add the following PropertyGroup element to the bottom of the.csproj file for your app project just before the closing tag: mcs.exe. Disable Visual Studio Preferences Build Build with MSBuild instead of xbuild.(This setting is also available in Xamarin Studio 6.3.
It is disabled by default in Xamarin Studio, but some users might have enabled it by hand in the past.). Close and reopen the solution to ensure the new setting is used.
Clean and rebuild the project. UPDATE (2017-05-11): We are releasing a Hotfix for Visual Studio for Mac. This new version (7.1.0.583) resolves the issue mentioned. We are releasing the first Alpha preview of our next major release, called 15.3.
This release includes our next preview of Visual Studio for Mac. As this is an Alpha build, there are some known issues and the possibility of new issues being found during testing.
Of course, additional bug reports are still welcome for these preview versions. If you see any suspicious behavior that you wish to report, please file a quick bug. If you notice an error in this blog post or have trouble downloading one of the installer packages, please let us know in the corresponding forum thread. Forum Thread – Please check out the product release notes to see all the fixes and known issues for this release. Products Released. Xamarin.iOS 10.11.0.126.
Xamarin.Android 7.3.0.13. Xamarin.Mac 3.5.0.126. Visual Studio for Mac 7.1.0.583. Mono Framework 5.2.0.104. Xamarin Workbooks & Inspector 1.3.0. Installing the Alpha and switching back to Stable You can install this new Alpha version or switch back to the current Stable version by changing. Upcoming Release Dates Alpha 1 – This Release!
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Now includes a feature called Quick Boot, which launches the emulator in just a few seconds. For Quick Boot to work, your AVD must perform a cold boot on its first time booting up. All subsequent starts will use this feature to restore the system to the state it was last closed in. This feature is turned on by default.
Getting Started wtih Quick Boot To get started, open the in your IDE by going to Tools Android SDK Manager. Under the Tools tab, update the following:. Android SDK Tools 26.1.1. Android Emulator 27.0.2 Once you’ve installed the requirements for this feature, it’s as easy as booting up your favorite AVD for the first time to start the initial cold boot. When you’re done using the AVD, exit the emulator and Quick Boot will save its state.
The next time you open your AVD, it will load the existing state and proceed to Quick Boot. Summary Now, your Android emulator should now start up in under six seconds, with no need to wait for the emulator to boot up before you continue coding.