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  • K Kevin Marois

    Just curious... Has anyone actually gotten Xamarin Forms to work in Visual Studio? I've tried installing it on 3 different PC's - Home, Company 1, and now Company 2 ... and in each case it's a nightmare getting it installed. Then, when it appears to be installed, I get countless compilation errors that say "Please install.... blah blah blah". So, anyone here actually have it working?

    If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.

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    Rage
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    Most of us still code in VB, so this is pretty futuristic technology you are talking about.

    Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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      Most of us still code in VB, so this is pretty futuristic technology you are talking about.

      Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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      Kevin Marois
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      You do realize that it's against the CP rules to mention 'VB' in the Lounge? :) :)

      If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.

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        You do realize that it's against the CP rules to mention 'VB' in the Lounge? :) :)

        If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.

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        Rage
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        On almost-halloween-time, we are allowed to scare people to death with mentions of VB6.0 And if you really want to scare them, just tell them half of the financial industry relies on VB and FORTRAN.

        Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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        • K Kevin Marois

          You do realize that it's against the CP rules to mention 'VB' in the Lounge? :) :)

          If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.

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          OriginalGriff
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          Even more against the rules to admit to coding in it... :laugh: Are you still having problems getting it to work? Xamarin Forms still works fine on my system (I must get back to learning how to use it... :sigh: )

          Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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          • R Rage

            On almost-halloween-time, we are allowed to scare people to death with mentions of VB6.0 And if you really want to scare them, just tell them half of the financial industry relies on VB and FORTRAN.

            Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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            OriginalGriff
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            And if you really, really, want to scare them, get them to go to QA and see what the next generation are doing ... VB would be an improvement ... :~

            Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

            "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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            • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

              Even more against the rules to admit to coding in it... :laugh: Are you still having problems getting it to work? Xamarin Forms still works fine on my system (I must get back to learning how to use it... :sigh: )

              Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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              Kevin Marois
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              OriginalGriff wrote:

              Are you still having problems getting it to work? Xamarin Forms still works fine on my system

              I started at a new company Monday. I manually installed[^] the Android and Java components and they seemed to install OK. Then I went into VS2015 and was prompted to update Xamarin, which I did. Lastly I followed this example[^], and upon build/deploy got all the "Please install..." errors.

              If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.

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              • R Rage

                On almost-halloween-time, we are allowed to scare people to death with mentions of VB6.0 And if you really want to scare them, just tell them half of the financial industry relies on VB and FORTRAN.

                Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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                Richard Deeming
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                VB6? That's far too advanced! :laugh:

                10 INK (RND*6)
                20 PRINT "BOO! ";
                30 GOTO 10


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                • R Rage

                  Most of us still code in VB, so this is pretty futuristic technology you are talking about.

                  Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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                  Merely to mention it, is to damn your soul _
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                  • R Rage

                    On almost-halloween-time, we are allowed to scare people to death with mentions of VB6.0 And if you really want to scare them, just tell them half of the financial industry relies on VB and FORTRAN.

                    Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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                    ...and the other half is using COBOL.

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                    • K Kevin Marois

                      Just curious... Has anyone actually gotten Xamarin Forms to work in Visual Studio? I've tried installing it on 3 different PC's - Home, Company 1, and now Company 2 ... and in each case it's a nightmare getting it installed. Then, when it appears to be installed, I get countless compilation errors that say "Please install.... blah blah blah". So, anyone here actually have it working?

                      If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.

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                      Pete OHanlon
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                      Yes. I do.

                      This space for rent

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                        Yes. I do.

                        This space for rent

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                        Kevin Marois
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                        Did you go through all manner of issues getting it installed? For the thrird time now I've had no end to problems... on 3 different PC's

                        If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.

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                        • K Kevin Marois

                          Did you go through all manner of issues getting it installed? For the thrird time now I've had no end to problems... on 3 different PC's

                          If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.

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                          Pete OHanlon
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                          Took me a bit of fiddling, but yes I did.

                          This space for rent

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                            Most of us still code in VB, so this is pretty futuristic technology you are talking about.

                            Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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                            Ryan Peden
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                            Fortunately, Xamarin lets you create iOS and Android apps using VBif you want to. :wtf: So when you look at it that way, I suppose you could say that VB is the future. :-\

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                            • K Kevin Marois

                              Did you go through all manner of issues getting it installed? For the thrird time now I've had no end to problems... on 3 different PC's

                              If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.

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                              Roger C Moore
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                              What errors are you getting? Admittedly, I have had a lot of errors with Xamarin, but it is working for me now. What version of windows are you using? Please provide details and perhaps I can help.

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                              • K Kevin Marois

                                Just curious... Has anyone actually gotten Xamarin Forms to work in Visual Studio? I've tried installing it on 3 different PC's - Home, Company 1, and now Company 2 ... and in each case it's a nightmare getting it installed. Then, when it appears to be installed, I get countless compilation errors that say "Please install.... blah blah blah". So, anyone here actually have it working?

                                If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.

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                                littleGreenDude
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                                I've installed it on a Windows 7 laptop. And also on a Windows 7 VM running on a MAC. Biggest problem I had was getting it to connect to the MAC. After a couple of updates on both the W7 and MAC sides things seem to be pretty smooth now.

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                                • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                  Even more against the rules to admit to coding in it... :laugh: Are you still having problems getting it to work? Xamarin Forms still works fine on my system (I must get back to learning how to use it... :sigh: )

                                  Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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                                  Manfred Rudolf Bihy
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                                  OriginalGriff wrote:

                                  I must get back to learning how to use it.

                                  Yes, yes, I do see a pattern emerging here. Every thing works just fine on my system until I actually start using it. :-\ Cheers!

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                                  • P Pete OHanlon

                                    Took me a bit of fiddling, but yes I did.

                                    This space for rent

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                                    Manfred Rudolf Bihy
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                                    "Took me a bit of fiddling" Very concise whilst not too precise! Been there and done that, but most of the time it's due to not having enough and also correct information. X| Let's push this out the door, if they really are keen on using it they'll figure out how it's supposed to work. My current source of woe: TFS 2015 / TFS 15 vNext build system. Works out of the box except if ... :doh: (It is really great let me assure you of this, but trying to find good documentation on it is not! ) Cheers!

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                                      Most of us still code in VB, so this is pretty futuristic technology you are talking about.

                                      Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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                                      You're scaring me... :~ Will Rogers never met me.

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                                      • K Kevin Marois

                                        You do realize that it's against the CP rules to mention 'VB' in the Lounge? :) :)

                                        If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.

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                                        • K Kevin Marois

                                          Just curious... Has anyone actually gotten Xamarin Forms to work in Visual Studio? I've tried installing it on 3 different PC's - Home, Company 1, and now Company 2 ... and in each case it's a nightmare getting it installed. Then, when it appears to be installed, I get countless compilation errors that say "Please install.... blah blah blah". So, anyone here actually have it working?

                                          If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.

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                                          Thornik
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                                          I even didn't tried! :) IMHO Xamarin as a 3-rd party company don't reward attention. .NET is a MS platform and THEY are completely responsible for proper UI lib on Linux. But instead of burying clumsy WPF and making usable UI, MS just points finger "hey, see, these guys make something like UI!". WTF?!! Who is responsible for that UI? Nobody. So why we should waste time on "hand made" library w/o any support and quality assurance? ATM MS has only two robust combinations: Windows+WinForms & Windows+WPF. Last one is slow and clumsy, so only 1.5 combinations. :)

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