Xamarin (Android) Unit Tests in Visual Studio 2017

There are three basic levels of testing: The classic unit testing of pure .Net/Mono code via xUnit|NUnit Nothing new here, this is the same testing that .Net programmers have been doing all long and has nothing to do with the Xamarin platform frameworks Note: These tests are totally independent of Xamarin.Android|iOS|Mac On platform testing (including … Read more

Using .net standard 1.5 lib in .net 4.6.2 misses System.Runtime 4.1.0.0

I’ve added a repo that shows you how to do this. From the README.md: Requirements Generally speaking, using libraries targeting .NET Standard in an application targeting .NET Framework requires the application project to include a NuGet reference for .NET Standard (NETStandard.Library). This ensures that the right set of assemblies are included with the application. In … Read more

Visual studio 2017 Update 3 – The SDK ‘Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Web’ specified could not be found

I stumbled upon this issue a number of times recently. Here’s a brief list of the workaround I found (one of them always worked until now): Install the right .NET Core SDK: Either the latest version or the version required by your project. Clean-up obsolete .NET Core versions: Go to Control Panel and uninstall previous … Read more