Missing Templates in Latest Xamarin Visual Studio 2017

Question

I wanted to start Cross Mobile App Development for that I had heard Xamarin is a good framework if you are good with C# , so , I had downloaded the latest Visual Studio 2017

Answer 1

First off welcome to the Xamarin world.

Secondly your templates that you have are correct. They simply changed up a bit in visual studio 2017. For instance, if you want to create a PCL ( Portable Class Library ) project, you select cross-platform app and click ok. Than you get following screen:

Here can select your coding strategy ( I chose PCL in screenshot ).

If more questions don't hesistate to ask and goodluck ;)

Answer 2

Microsoft keep on improving VS and Xamarin. Yesterday I updated VS 2017 to version 15.8.4 and now I see a difference also between your screen Jordy Dieltjens and mine as below, you have "UI Technology" to the left bottom corner and instead I have "Platform". Also you have "Portable Class Library (PCL)" under "Code sharing strategy" to the right bottom corner where I have ".Net Standard" instead. as per my knowledge PCL is now deprecated and replaced with .Net Standard which is supposed to do the same.