"Mac Platform Setup" page no longer accurate.

[RobSeder]

On this page, and also following the YouTube video on that page too - it is missing something. The result is in a window popping up (with the correct NSWindowStyle's and .Title) - but it's empty. In Visual Studio, in the Live Visual Tree, all of the components are loaded, but not visible.

It seems that something changed in the new version of Xamarin and it seems like this is missing a setting some place, but I can't figure out what it is. I'm using Visual Studio for Mac 8.10.11 (build 8) on macOS Big Sur v11.6. This is a shared Xamarin.Forms app created in VS 2022 on Windows 10. Then, this macOS project was added to the solution on a mac.

For the macOS and the shared project, here are the Nuget package versions:

• Xamarin.Essentials - v1.7.0
• Xamarin.Forms - v5.0.0.2125
• Xamarin.Forms.Maps - v5.0.0.2125

If you can figure out what the missing step is, could you please update this page? thank you!

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[RobSeder]

@davidbritch or @davidortinau any thoughts on how to get this one reviewed? Thanks very much!