Failed to create F # Android project - Visual Studio 2015 Xamarin Community

Question

I follow the options in the dialog to create a new F # Android control activity in a Visual Studio video ad from the Xamarin download page, and I'm not very lucky. Android projects in C # seem to work very well. This is Visual Studio 2015 release, released right after the Xamarin open source ad.

As soon as the project is created, for a moment before it disappears, an intro page will appear. The project structure was loaded into the solution explorer during the time when the input page was entered, but now it only displays (loading failure).

Project Information Extension Shows

The project requires user input. Reload the project for more information.

An update attempt displays a dialog box with text

The document 'c: \ users \ [me] \ documents \ visual studio 2015 \ Projects \ FSharpBlankApp \ FSharpBlankApp \ FSharpBlankApp.fsproj' is already open. Do you want to close it?

Clicking Yes does not perform any visible actions outside of some activity in the Xamarin Diagnostics output category. The output is as follows:

[I:]: Tracking android devices started [D:]: Tracking avd started [D:]: avd watcher *.ini path: 'C:\Users\<me>\.android\avd' [D:]: avd watcher android path: 'C:\Users\<me>\AppData\Local\Android\ANDROI~1\tools\android.bat' [D:]: TrackDeviceTask got: [I:]: Got new device list from adb with 0 devices [I:]: Tracking android devices stopped [I:]: Tracking android devices started [D:]: Tracking avd started [D:]: avd watcher *.ini path: 'C:\Users\<me>\.android\avd' [D:]: avd watcher android path: 'C:\Users\<me>\AppData\Local\Android\ANDROI~1\tools\android.bat' [D:]: TrackDeviceTask got: [I:]: Got new device list from adb with 0 devices [I:]: Tracking android devices stopped [D:]: avd watcher: got device list from avd with 9 devices [D:]: avd watcher: got device list from avd with 9 devices 

I installed this on two computers with the same results. F # Windows templates seem to load and execute without problems. Running Visual Studio as an administrator does not seem to make any difference. This is on Windows 10.

Any recommendations for resolving the problem or how to proceed from this point are welcome. Thanks!

Answer 1

The reason this fails is because Xamarin is awaiting the installation of the F # 3.0 SDK. Here is a discussion on the Xamarin forum .

You can install the F # 3.0 SDK from here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=261286