Installing latest Xamarin on Windows 8.1

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We are evaluating Xamarin Forms for our next project to develop the same application for the three major platforms: Android, iOS and Windows Phone.

As we mostly work with WP and Windows apps within the company, we have a well working base setup for work environment. It consists of a Windows 8.1 Pro/Enterprise install, Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 with both WP 8.0 and 8.1 emulators and targets, and all the rest of the packages (e.g. Office Development packages, etc.).

So I grabbed such a laptop, and installed Xamarin on it, using the official download URL on their site. It installed fine, but when I tried to create a new Forms project, it only created the Android part of it, no WP or iOS projects were created.

After checking the settings and all, it turns out that Xamarin Studio won't load the iOS and WP parts which would make it possible to create the projects.

How could I make it see those extensions?

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To create iOS and WP projects, you need to use Visual Studio with the Xamarin extensions. - Jason
Visual Studio 2013 is also installed, with the Xamarin extensions. Setup basically went like this: Win8.1, Chrome, Total Commander, Visual Studio 2013 with all options, VS2013.4, Android SDK, Android NDK, GTK#, Java JDK 1.6 and 1.7, then ran the Universal Installer to finish up the missing parts. - fonix232
Instead of using Xamarin Studio to create your Xamarin Project use Visual Studio to create a Xamarin forms pcl project. This should create Android, iOS and WP projects - User1
I am doing that. Visual Studio, after setting up the iOS target, now creates the Android and iOS projects, but not the WP one (the most important one). - fonix232
Creating a Shared project instead of a PCL project creates the WP project though. PCL project won't, but Shared project will. However, we need to work with a PCL project, not a Shared one. - fonix232

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You will need to download the Windows phone SDK update and that will create Windows phone project for you