Unable to Build Xamarin Project

Question

I set up a new environment on a new desktop computer. I cloned the project from the git repo and finally got it to build. For some reason the errors appear to be random but one error keeps showing consistently.

Metadata file 'C:\\\\bin\\Debug\\netstandard1.4\\MyProject.dll' could not be found

I can create a new project and that base project runs fine. The cloned project used to run on the PCL and was converted to netstandard a while back prior to 2.0 release.

Answer 1

Its because your project is targeting netstandard 1.4 . Right click you project and choose properties . In Application option Set Target Framework to netstandard 2 . Enjoy huge set of API and new crossplatform framework that is netstandard 2 . If unable to target netstandard 2 install dotnetcore from the visual studio installer.