Xamarin.Forms Cross-Platform templates missing on Visual Studio 2015 Professional

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I have fresh install of Visual Studio 2015 Professional and after click on File - New Project - Templates - Visual C# - Cross Platform I don't get any usual templates like Blank app or Cross Platform App (Xamarin.Forms or Native). I had installed all available items during Visual Studio installation and would like to target iPhone, Android and WF platform in a same project.

How to install missing templates?

Missing templates should be here available

All features were selected during initial install

All features including Xamarin were selected during initial install of Visual Studio.

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Follow the official guide: developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/getting_started/… – EvZ
Yes, I've done it. Xamarin is successfuly installed and I can run existing Xamarin.Forms apps on all available platforms. This templates are the only thing missing. – mrisek
Rerun the Visual Studio installer: "select the Custom option in the installer, and check the box under Cross Platform Mobile Development > C#/.NET (Xamarin)" – Benl
The box is already checked, as it was during initial installation. – mrisek

1 Answers

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I solved the issue by performing a thorough Xamarin uninstall, then I installed it again through Visual Studio installer. Details and the exact 12 steps which helped me are described here:

https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/windows/visual-studio/troubleshooting/uninstall-xamarinvs/

After this I got all templates needed (iPhone, Android & Windows Phone). However, after recent update of Xamarin tools I noticed that Windows Phone project isn't added to the solution any more but replaced with Universal Windows Platform.