I have a blank Xamarin.Forms solution consisting of a PCL project and an Android project. In these projects I installed the NuGet packages NControl 0.8.6, NControl.Controls 0.9.0 and NGraphics 0.4.0. The solution builds only as long as the version of Xamarin.Forms is not higher than 2.1.0.6529 and the version of the “Xamarin.Android.Support.*” packages is not higher than 23.0.1.3. I would like to be able to upgrade Xamarin.Forms to a more recent version, but after upgrading to any newer version of Xamarin.Forms than 2.1.0.6529, the rebuild of the solution starts to fail with about 300 messages like this:
'Resource.Attribute' does not contain a definition for 'mediaRouteSettingsDrawable'
'Resource.Color' does not contain a definition for 'design_textinput_error_color'
'Resource.Dimension' does not contain a definition for 'design_fab_content_size'
'Resource.Dimension' does not contain a definition for 'design_navigation_padding_top_default'
'Resource.Dimension' does not contain a definition for 'design_tab_min_width'
'Resource.Dimension' does not contain a definition for 'dialog_fixed_height_major'
'Resource.Dimension' does not contain a definition for 'dialog_fixed_height_minor'
'Resource.Dimension' does not contain a definition for 'dialog_fixed_width_major'
'Resource.Dimension' does not contain a definition for 'dialog_fixed_width_minor'
'Resource.Dimension' does not contain a definition for 'mr_media_route_controller_art_max_height'
'Resource.Drawable' does not contain a definition for 'ic_setting_dark'
'Resource.Drawable' does not contain a definition for 'ic_setting_light'
'Resource.Drawable' does not contain a definition for 'mr_ic_settings_dark'
'Resource.Drawable' does not contain a definition for 'mr_ic_settings_light'
'Resource.Id' does not contain a definition for 'art'
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Restarting Visual Studio, removing “bin” and “obj” folders, cleaning, rebuilding, reinstalling packages (Update-Packages -reinstall) do not help. What do I have to do in order to be able to keep using the “NControl” and “NControl.Controls” packages even after upgrading Xamarin.Forms?
I use Visual Studio 2015 on Windows 10. These are the versions of Xamarin components installed:
Xamarin 4.2.1.58 (3e1ef9e)
Xamarin.Android 7.0.2.37 (ce955cc)
Xamarin.iOS 10.2.1.5 (44931ae)