The “XamlCTask” task failed unexpectedly in Xamarin

Question

I am currently having a problem building my Xamarin.Forms solution. I\'m getting an error of The \"XamlCTask\" task failed unexpectedly. I tried looking at the

Answer 1

I had 35 pages in my app with an assembly reference to turn on/off xaml compilation. To find the offending page I had to remove the assembly reference and place the following on each page and rebuild the shared project one at a time until I found the offending page (make sure you have release build selected).

#if (DEBUG != true)
    [XamlCompilation(XamlCompilationOptions.Compile)]
#endif

Once you find the page, it's most likely a xaml issue like so many solutions above. For me it was because I had accidentally placed 2 resource dictionaries on the page so it was easy to spot, your's may not be so easy.