How to add a service reference to Xamarin PCL on VisualStudio 2017

Question

I\'m working on a simple Xamarin cross-platform mobile application that needs to connect to a WEB Service. There are a few posts (see here, here and here) saying that Visual Stu

Answer 1

All my apologies, I have found the answer - like, 45 seconds after posting - by putting together this post and this post:

• Manually edit the portable .csproj
• In the "TargetFrameworkProfile" enter "Profile78"

VS2017 will reload the project and you will now be able to add a Service Reference.