Xamarin Visual Studio iOS Portable Class Library rebuild process

Question

I have a PCL in my Xamarin iOS project. Working from VS, I am finding that to get a change to the PCL reflected in the iOS app, I have to do all of the following:

• Kill the app from VS
• Quit the app in the simulator
• Delete the app from the simulator
• Rebuild the PCL in VS
• Finally, build and run the iOS project.

Can I simplify this workflow? I do have a build dependency from the iOS project to the PCL project. But it doesn't seem to help.

Answer 1

Have you checked your build configuration? I had this same issue a few weeks ago and it was because certain projects were not being built in the active configuration. My PCL libraries were not being built by default.

Build menu -> build configuration