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Hello,

firstly thank you for your effort making this plugin. It is what I always missed while developing with Xamarin Forms. Unfortunately I can not get it running. So far I did following steps:

-In my .Net Standard typed project in the Android project I opened the references and installed xamlator nuget package.

• Then I started my emulated device and after starting typed from Extras->Android->adb cmd "adb reverse tcp:8488 tcp:8488" (also tried typing first then starting the emulator device
• I added the additional lines in the OnCreate class.
• I build the project and started debugging without erros but nothing happened modifying xaml and saving it.

Am I missing some steps? Did I something wrong?

Yours

XAMLator can't be installed in the .net standard shared project, it has to be installed in the native project, the Android application in your case. The visual studio addin is WIP in #16, it will be soon submitted to the market place

Hello ylatuya,

thanks for the fast reply.

For my understanding you mean when I want to use this tool, I need to choose as project template Xandroid-XAML-App (Xamarin.Forms) and not the Cross-Platform template where I install it in the Android project?

Yours

You can use the .netstandard approach instead of the shared project one. If you look at the sample app in XAMLator, it's also using a .netstandard project to share code, but the XAMLator nuget is added to the application projects: XAMLator.SampleApp.Android, XAMLator.SampleApp.iOS, etc... instead of the .netstandard library project XAMLator.SampleApp.

Hi @ylatuya, Is the https://www.nuget.org/packages/XAMLator/2019.3.24.12 ready for Windows ? I just downloaded one. Will appreciate your input. Thanks

@ylatuya: I tried the provided Samples but it also not working with them. Seems that something is wrong with my IDE configuration. I just wait until the nuget package releases.

We will release the Visual Studio for Windows extension soon, are you testing with the extension installed compiling the code or without the extension?. Without the extension will not work.

@jsuarezruiz , I didn't have the extension installed. Is there a extension from the CI build that we can download before it is published in the marketplace ?

Besides hot-reload (which we are excited for), will XAMLator help us with the location of the errors where XAML may be failing / causing issues ? I think that's a very important need for Xamarin Forms development community. Thanks for everything. Can't wait longer... :)

@jsuarezruiz

• I installed the nuget Xamlator package under the android project
• I start my emulated Android device
• add LoadApplication(new App()); #if DEBUG XAMLator.Server.PreviewServer.Run(); #endif in main activity
• Extras->Android->adb cmd "adb reverse tcp:8488 tcp:8488" typed
• start debugging, does not work

This won't work on Windows until we publish the Visual Studio plugin. Closing this as duplicate of #16

@ylatuya , @jsuarezruiz - can you please advice us when will this extn be available for VS 2019 on windows? Thanks