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Please see https://releases.xamarin.com/15-5-preview-5/ for the details about this release, including the steps to update or downgrade as needed.
This release is now available as part of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5 Preview and in the Beta and Alpha updater channels for Visual Studio 2017 for Mac and Visual Studio 2015 Tools for Xamarin.
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After updating every time you try to clean or build you get a dialog with "The Xamarin license file is invalid and could not be recovered" with an option for "Use Visual Studio Professional" after selecting this option you get the dialog one more time. Next try to clean or build you are going to get the same dialog again in a endless looping.
In stable version you only get the dialog once.
Please file a quick bug report using the "15.5 Preview" new bug form if you see any suspicious behavior in these versions that you wish to report
That will help ensure proper investigation of the issue. Thanks!
Roslyn keeps saying I have duplicate resources in the Resources.Designer.cs, until I clean or build. I was going to try adding the config option for turning off design time builds, but I'm not clear where "$(AndroidUseManagedDesignTimeResourceGenerator)" needs to be added.
I read the documentation at the link you posted but it shows an example using the newer csproj format, I think. Where in the legacy csproj should it go?
Thanks
@BrendanZagaeski I would like to know if the MasterBehavior did works actually on iOS, because on Xamarin.Forms 2.4 the slide Menu does not have the same animation on both platforms, I mean, I want put it on top of the content on iOS like on Android.
You can place it in any
<PropertyGroup>element that is enabled for the current configuration. For example, you could place it in a<PropertyGroup>that has noConditionattribute if you want to use it for all configurations, or you can place under the<PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)'for the currently active configuration. To disable the feature, you would add a line like the following under the<PropertyGroup>:<AndroidUseManagedDesignTimeResourceGenerator>False</AndroidUseManagedDesignTimeResourceGenerator>I don't have any experience with MasterBehavior myself. I would recommend checking on Stack Overflow, the Xamarin.Forms forums, or Xamarin Bugzilla for any matching reports or recommendations.
@BrendanZagaeski Awesome thanks!
I don't see any release notes for Visual Studio for Mac 7.3. Will those be coming up any time soon?
When getting an error in the top bar and clicking on it, the Error output window closes after 1 second
and also opening it through the View options doesn't solve the issue
I'll pass along the question to the team to make sure those are in progress to be published asap.
It sounds like you are seeing this in Visual Studio for Mac, and it sounds like an interesting finding. If you get a chance, be sure to Report a Problem for Visual Studio for Mac about that issue so the team can investigate and you can track the status in the Developer Community portal. Thanks in advance!
Really, it would be helpful.
So the latest update to xamarin.forms on macOS crashes the trivial getting started app down in the mainmenu code. I gather this is a known issue, but for those of us living in the stable path, is there a workaround/fix/explanation of what to do? I've searched without success....
Regressions are double-plus ungood... :-)
It's good....Thank you
This thread has now been closed to direct further updates about this release onto the latest announcement:
https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/111390/current-release-15-5-feature-release/p1