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Not able to find out Portable Class Libraries project in visual studio 2017 when creating cross platform app


Hi when i am going to create new xamarin forms app I'm not able to see Protable Class Library in the Sharing Code Strategy options in VS 2017 .enter image description here

Please help me in this


Solution

  • That's the expected behavior, it's no longer possible to create a PCL library with Visual Studio 2017 as they've been replaced by .NET Standard libraries, see here for more details.

    Also, the roadmap and the comparison with PCL profiles is available here, so you can determine the right .NET Standard version for you depending on your target framework and the APIs you need to place in the shared library.