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Visual Studio crashes when creating new Mobile APP Xamarin
Start visual studio
2. From start page => new project => create new project
3. From new project dialog => visual C# => cross-platform => mobile app (Xamarin.Forms)
4. Select location (folder), check box "Create directory for solution", click "OK"
5. Wait...
6. It creates files and folders in the designated location. VS status bar claims "project successfully created"
6 After about 30 seconds, Visual Studio crashes, with the usual "Reporting problem to Microsoft" message.
Repeating steps 1 thru 6 delivers the same outcome (VS crash) every time. See screenshots in attached PowerPoint.
After step 6, there is a project folder, which contains one SLN file + two completely empty folders. Clicking the SLN file opens VS without crash but it is otherwise completely dysfunctional and unresponsive.
The problem persists after updating VS to latest version (15.7) and uninstalling + re-installing the Xamarin component.
We appreciate you taking the time to report this problem. We are currently prioritizing problems that are impacting a broad set of our customers, so we may not be able to investigate this one immediately. We know this problem is important to you, so we will continue to monitor it.
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