The solution that worked for me: Uninstall Xamarin.Forms: Right Click Solution -> Manage NuGet Packages -> Uninstall Xamarin.Forms -> Restart VS Then remove build platforms: Right Click Solution -> Properties -> Build -> under Targeting select Change -> Remove platform(s) -> Restart VS Reinstall Xamarin.Forms: Manage NuGet packages -> Search for Xamarin.Forms -> Install -> … Read more
Today I wrote a program to successfully launch any .exe programs from UWP. Want to share the process for the benefit of others. This is in addition to the answer by stefan Wick MSFT. First the package.appmanifest needs to be updated. This is what I have in package.appmanifest: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?> <Package xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/appx/manifest/foundation/windows10″ xmlns:mp=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/appx/2014/phone/manifest” xmlns:uap=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/appx/manifest/uap/windows10″ … Read more
If your app is a pure UWP app, this is not possible. UWP apps were built with the goal of being lightweight and avoid registry as much as possible, so your app cannot access the registry at all (although some registry keys are created by the system when the app is installed, like URI protocol … Read more
I solved this problem by adding Newtonsoft.Json to the NuGet of the startup project (even though it is not directly used in the startup project).