UWP not working in Xamarin Crossplatform project.

Desmond Miles

Everytime I try and deploy UWP Project in my Cross-platform Xamarin.Forms project; a window pops out saying "The project must be deployed before it can be started" and when I take a look at UWP's files I can see un-resolved imports even though UWP SDK is properly referenced in project.json.

Android part of Xamarin.Forms is working just fine though.

I tried updating Xamarin but there wasn't any "other" option in

tools -> xamarin section where normally you would find one if you wanted to change release level or update Xamarin.

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Amit Gupta9y ago
Accepted answer
There was 2 option to update xamarin that requires internet connection while running visual studio
1. Whenever you choose xamarin template to build apps, visual studio detects whether new version of xamarin is available and if so then choose from there.

Check link for reference
http://www.alteridem.net/2016/06/22/update-xamarin-visual-studio/

2. Goto uninstall programs -> choose modify option of Visual studio , there you can find the update for xamarin.

Moreover sdk's and ndk's can be found
https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/android/getting_started/installation/windows/manual_installation/
Amit Gupta9y ago
Have you tried to deploy the uwp app by enabling the DEVELOPER MODE ON.?

Visit this link to enable
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/how-to-enable-developer-mode-in-windows-10