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- Difference Between Xamarin Studio And Visual Studio For Mac
- Visual Studio With Xamarin
- Xamarin Studio Download
- Visual Studio Community For Mac
Steps to Reproduce
- Open any iOS solution in Visual Studio, such as Hello.iOS_Multiscreen
- Click the Connect button to Pair a Mac
- The error appears:
Difference Between Xamarin Studio And Visual Studio For Mac
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One or more Xcode tools were not installed successfully. Failed tools: XcodeExtensionSupport.pkg, MobileDevice.pkg. Even if you can continue working with iOS apps, we strong recommend you to manually open Xcode on 'MacBook' and install them if asked.
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Expected Behavior
Visual Studio With Xamarin
The PC connects to the Mac and builds the solution in iOS simulator.
Actual Behavior
The Mac and the PC are not connected, and building to the Mac is broken.
When I open Xcode, there are no prompts. I verified my certificates are valid in Xcode. I was able to build yesterday before today's updates. I updated both the Mac and PC.
Xamarin Studio Download
Environment
Build Logs
Xamarin.Messaging.Integration.State.ServerStateContext|Information|0|Xcode 'MobileDeviceDevelopment.pkg' package is already installed
Xamarin.Messaging.Integration.State.ServerStateContext|Information|0|Checking Xcode 'XcodeExtensionSupport.pkg' package installation...
Xamarin.Messaging.Ssh.SshCommandRunner|Warning|0|Failed to execute 'pkgutil --pkg-info com.apple.pkg.XcodeExtensionSupport': ExitStatus = 1
Xamarin.Messaging.Ssh.SshCommandRunner|Warning|0|No receipt for 'com.apple.pkg.XcodeExtensionSupport' found at '/'.
Xamarin.Messaging.Integration.State.ServerStateContext|Information|0|Installing Xcode package 'XcodeExtensionSupport.pkg'...
Xamarin.Messaging.Integration.State.ServerStateContext|Information|0|Checking Xcode 'XcodeExtensionSupport.pkg' package installation...
Xamarin.Messaging.Ssh.SshCommandRunner|Warning|0|Failed to execute 'pkgutil --pkg-info com.apple.pkg.XcodeExtensionSupport': ExitStatus = 1
Xamarin.Messaging.Ssh.SshCommandRunner|Warning|0|No receipt for 'com.apple.pkg.XcodeExtensionSupport' found at '/'.
Xamarin.Messaging.Integration.State.ServerStateContext|Information|0|Installing Xcode package 'XcodeExtensionSupport.pkg'...
Visual Studio Community For Mac
VS bug #655330