Project Linker extension will not install on Visual Studio 2013 Pro

Question

I am trying to do a tutorial for Xamarin in Visual Studio, which can be found here, which says that in oreder to complete the tutorial the Project Linker extension is requir

Answer 1

I've skipped the project linker, and just linked files directly as per this Xamarin tutorial. It's a bit monotonous but it works and I've deployed a sample application in VS2013 for android this way.

http://docs.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/application_fundamentals/building_cross_platform_applications/sharing_code_options/

Answer 2

The main idea, is to download the .vsix file for Project Linker 2012 and manually update it's content allowing it to be installed in VS2013.

Q&A page of the extension actually contains detailed steps: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/273dbf44-55a1-4ac6-a1f3-0b9741587b9a

Here they are:

1. Download vsix
2. Change extension from vsix to zip
3. Unzip the file
4. Open extension.vsixmanifest in text editor
5. Change the line <InstallationTarget Id="Microsoft.VisualStudio.Pro" Version="11.0" /> to <InstallationTarget Id="Microsoft.VisualStudio.Pro" Version="12.0" />
6. Zip all files back7. Rename to .vsix
7. Double click the file