Manifest on visual studio 2015 Community + Xamarin

Question

I started to learn Xamarin 2 days ago, but the capabilities looks diferent from any other tutorial I found. And my code for WP8.1 doesn't work. The namespace Microsoft.Phone.Tasks is not available. Someone know what I'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

There are differences between the classes available within the Windows Phone world, and the Xamarin world. While they both share the same language (C#) and there are some crossover between libraries, there is not a 1:1 correlation.

If you are having troubles getting started, I highly suggest taking a look at the Getting Started guide . As you are a Visual Studio user, it may be more accurate to ensure that you are reading Visual Studio centric documentation. On pages where a difference may exist, there is a toggle on the upper right that will allow you to focus on Visual Studio. The toggle will look similar to this screenshot

I hope this helps!