Does not work with PCL version of Xamarin?

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Does not work with PCL version of Xamarin?

Closed this issue 8 years ago · 3 comments

Hello,

I'm trying to get this gem to work with a Xamarin.Forms PCL project but the conditional xaml is not showing up when building the application. Are PCL projects supported?

Answer 1 · 2016-09-19T21:39:49.000Z

I guess it should. You are using xcc on a windows box?

Answer 2 · 2016-09-20T06:03:42.000Z

Yes, I'm currently using Xamarin.Forms 2.3.2.127. When I add the required namespaces and some conditional XAML (e.g. <android:Label/>), build the project for a specific platform and then look at the file in obj\Debug\preprocessedxaml\Views, the conditional code is always removed regardless of the platform used. One thing to mention is that I do use <XccRemoveIgnorableContent>True</XccRemoveIgnorableContent> to enable the use of the xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008" namespace in order to get intellisense using d:DataContext. Could this have anything to do with the issues I'm having?

Answer 3 · 2016-09-20T19:55:29.000Z

It's not XccRemoveIgnorableContent, it's the PCL project. The Android conditional compilation is never true for the standalone PCL project. PCL is platform independent. XCC works best with a shared project where the same XAML file is compiled in the various platform projects (with their corresponding conditional compilation symbols).

XCC in a PCL is probably only useful for debug and release builds.

So yes, this behavior is expected and correct.