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I have installed Visual Studio 2017 to follow along with online training for Xamarin created in May. They instructed us to add a new item and then selected Cross-Platform. I did not have Cross-Platform as an option. I found a post for an older version of Visual Studio where they showed how to add it manually. I did this and it created the Cross-Platform item but this only contained four options instead of the ten in the video. Has this been taken away in a newer release or do I need to do something to add all the items? Many thanks

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  • Can you explain a bit what items are you talking about (classes, projects, views...)? – ganchito55 Jun 29 '17 at 10:22
  • See answer to this question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44824129/missing-templates-in-latest-xamarin-visual-studio-2017 – AQuirky Jun 29 '17 at 12:04
  • Yeah, I do need to explain a bit more. It is not the same templates mentioned there, AQuirky. I have created a Xamarin Cross Platform app, Blank App with Xamarin.Forms and PCL. It has created all the projects and then I right click on the PCL and select Add new item. In the video they have got Cross-Platform on the left with 10 items. I have not got Cross-Platform. – S. Roberts Jun 29 '17 at 23:08
  • @S.Roberts Did you ever find a solve? I have the exact same issue. – davecove Jul 16 '17 at 02:50
  • Nope @davecove. I have posted on the Xamarin forums too with no answer. I have also logged an issue with Microsoft and it has been triaged, whatever that means to them. – S. Roberts Jul 17 '17 at 03:26

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I have finally found a solution. I used the Visual Studio uninstaller to uninstall Mobile Development with .Net, rebooted and then installed it again. Works like a charm. There must have been old versions that were not getting updated or something was corrupt. Hope this helps someone.

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