The “ResolveLibraryProjectImports” task failed unexpectedly

Question

I have a Xamarin project, which is based on MvvmCross. The project is for both iOS and Android. I opened this project in Visual Studio 15. I got some errors, wh

Answer 1

This was how I got the error. In a StackLayout I put in a Padding property, and I seperated the 4 digits by a space rather than a comma. To find the bug I had to comment out the XAML controls individually and rebuild to isolate where the error is, and eventually I found the problem line. So basically this was the error message I got for a syntax error in my XAML code! In any other language I would expect to be informed what the error is so I can fix it in seconds. But this took me a few hours - although next time I know what to do.