使用Xamarian从Visual Studio启动iOS模拟器

Question

How can I launch an iOS simulator from Visual Studio? I'm working on Windows but have Visual Studio connected to my mac so I can develop a cross platform app.

I can successfully launch the iOS app to the iPad that is plugged into the Mac but can't figure out how to launch a simulator (I just want to test everything is loading good on different screens). When I set my Solution Platform to iPhoneSimulator and my startup project to myApp.iOS and click start I get the error message... Please select a valid device before running the application.

Answer 1

On the Mac open a terminal and enter: ps -eax Xamarin Get the pid of the IDB.exe process Kill it: Kill 123456 (Replace 123456 with the pid) Wait a few seconds, vs drop down should fill.

Up vote if it worked.

Answer 2

Ran into the same problem after I'd just installed the iOS simulator for Windows VS; restarted VS and the networked Mac and the drop-down filled.