I have recently been working on the materials from the Xamarin University, and during class and101, when attempting to view the android manifest, the application "iced" over and never recovered. I restarted and tried opening the manifest to no avail, same results. I tried other solutions, and still cannot open the manifest in xamarin studio on my windows machine (works fine on macbook pro) I have recently noticed that on first creation of a new Android project, the application also freezes. I have tried switching channels to no avail and have completely uninstalled the application and started over again to be met with the same problems.
I am running on Windows 8.1 64 bit. Any other information I can provide?