Hey everyone, I'm enjoying using Visual Studio to write Xamarin.iOS code. Pretty cool stuff.
Unfortunately, I'm having a heck of a time debugging on the simulator from Visual Studio (running in VMWare on Windows 7 on my Mac). I run constantly into the following problems:
Visual Studio can't see the Mac build host (mtbserver)
Visual Studio sees the build host, seems to connect, but the app never appears on the simulator. Often in this case I'll get an HTTP error of some kind (which indicates to me that there's a problem connecting to the simulator even though the dialog that pops up and checks the connection said it works fine).
The app will debug on simulator once, but it won't start up again - Visual Studio just locks up.
After Visual Studio locks up, I'll close it down and re-start it and then Xamarin.iOS gives me either a version or a licensing problem, does something to sync up with Xamarin's servers, and then restarts. Sometimes this process happens twice in a row - that is, the next time Visual Studio starts up, I get the same error and re-verification of license with Xamarin's servers. The third time, then, it will work.
Sometimes these problems go away if I clear the iPhone Simulator data in ~/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator, sometimes not.
All that's to say -- not trying to complain here -- just wondering if I'm having problems that lots of people are having, or whether I've got some kind of configuration problem on my machine. These problems seem less likely to occur with hello world type apps, more likely to occur when anything "significant" is going on in the app.
Things seem to work better with Xamarin Studio.
Any thoughts? I'd love to stay with Visual Studio but am considering switching over to Xamarin Studio just to avoid debugging over the network.
Thanks, Brad