The “ResolveLibraryProjectImports” task failed unexpectedly

Question

I have a Xamarin project, which is based on MvvmCross. The project is for both iOS and Android. I opened this project in Visual Studio 15. I got some errors, wh

Answer 1

I had this error as well. In my situation it was accompanied by Xamarin.Forms.Maps not importing into the one of the xaml.g.cs files correctly. I had all the using statements correct. The IDE was showing no errors but it kept telling me that Xamarin.Forms did not have a name space Map. It was generating in MapPage.xaml.g.cs as Xamarin.Forms.Map instead of Xamarin.Forms.Maps.Map and I couldn't force a fix manually. It turned out though that the suggested xmlns:maps for maps was causing the problem. The IDE had told me to use "http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms" but the correct namespace is "clr-namespace:Xamarin.Forms.Maps;assembly=Xamarin.Forms.Maps". After I changed this it was able to build my App1.dll