Xamarin Forms Item Templates Missing in Visual Studio

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I had to restore my Windows to a previous restore point and then Xamarin stopped working. I ended up uninstalling Xamarin and Visual Studio 2015 to get Xamarin working again, which it mostly is. I cannot update Xamarin Forms to the latest stable 2.3.3.180 but 2.3.3.175 is working for now.

The most troublesome issue is when I right click my PCL project and select Add->New Item, in the list of Installed templates there is no Cross-Platform folder and nowhere to select "Forms Xaml Page" item. How can I get these templates installed? Have done reinstall and repair on both VS and Xamarin and I can't get these templates to show up.

Thanks,

Tony

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xamarin.forms

1 Answers

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See my post here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/42341624/2274377

  1. C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio14.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\

  2. Find the correct subfolder. This can be tricky. I had a Xamarin folder, but that was not the right one. In my case it was folder wa13kl1p.m3s. However, open your folders and check it there is some Xamarin.Forms.Templates... files in it.

  3. Inside that folder navigate to the T/P/CSharp folder.

  4. Copy the Cross-Platform folder over to C:\Users\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#

    Same thing for the ItemTemplates:

But this time navigate to T/I/CSharp folder.

Copy the Cross-Platform folder over to C:\Users\Documents\Visual Studio2015\Templates\ItemTemplates\Visual C#