Thanks Jeff Will drill down through your ideas during this weekend and into next week. I'm already logging a few issues - but don't want to log too many when I know I'm working on the edge of the dev curve.
What sort of thing do you need to know for the profiles - I've got this https://gist.github.com/2788579 And I've also got very helpful contact from Daniel (@dsplaisted) within the MS PCL/PLP team if that helps - he seems genuinely really keen to see PCLs used across all platforms. Stuart On 25 May 2012 15:22, Jeff Stedfast <j...@xamarin.com> wrote: > Hi Stuart, > > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:02 AM, slodge <m...@slodge.com> wrote: > >> Hi All >> >> I'm still plugging away at trying to get Portable Library projects to work >> fully across wp7, winrt, droid and touch. >> >> I'm especially trying this as it will deliver lots of benefits in terms of >> refactoring and csproj project management to me as a cross platform >> developer. >> >> I've previously managed to: >> >> - get all projects to build in VS2010 - using VSMonoTouch with a fair >> amount >> of hacking - >> http://slodge.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/using-portable-library-tools-for.html >> >> - get all projects to run in wp7, winrt and monodroid from the PC >> >> - get MonoTouch/MonoDevelop on the Mac to load Portable Library Project >> files - but this seems only to work if I force the Profile type to >> "Profile1" >> >> - get MonoTouch projects to use Portable Class Libraries if I add them as >> compiled references rather than as project references. >> >> However, there are still a few gaps I'm trying to fill - all of them on >> MonoDevelop on the Mac: >> >> 1. I don't seem to be able to find any way to load PLPs project files in >> MonoDevelop outside of Profile1 - if the .csproj file contains anything >> other than Profile1 in >> `<TargetProfileFramework>Profile1</TargetProfileFramework>` then it won't >> load. >> > > Hmm, this seems like a bug. I'll look into this. Could you submit a bug > report to http://bugzilla.xamarin.com for tracking? The "IPhone Add-In" > component is a good place to submit these (that should auto-assign the bugs > to me). > > >> >> 2. I can't work out how to edit the installed profiles. Ideally I'd like >> to >> go even further than Profile 4 - ideally I'd like to extend this all the >> way >> up to Profile 104 as I can then link in my own type >> redirection/substitution >> stubs for the limited required System.Net and System.Windows assemblies. >> > > There's currently no editor UI for this because we currently do not have > any of the XML files that define the profiles, so the only way to have done > it would have been to hard-code the profile names and relations. > > We want to eventually have full support for .NETPortable projects and be > compatible with Microsoft, but we do not currently have the XML / API > definitions for the profiles as part of Mono. It *is* in our queue to > figure out how to generate these, because long-term we agree that this is > the way forward. > > Once we find a way to include those in Mono, it'll become a high priority > to implement a UI for selecting these profile configurations. > > >> >> 3. I can't work out how to reference portable library projects from >> MonoTouch projects - I can add the references, but as soon as I select a >> configuration like "Debug|iPhoneSimulator" then the PLP is greyed out and >> "not build in active configuration" appears. >> > > What configurations does it work with? I could have sworn this worked. > > Could you submit a bug for this one, too? > > I'll look into this one as well. > > >> >> I appreciate that much of what I'm trying here is on the edge of what has >> currently been tried, and I realise that some of the features I'm trying >> to >> use are only available in Beta from Microsoft, but I really strongly >> believe >> in this as the way forwards - so that's why I'm trying so hard to get it >> working :) >> > > We think it's the way forward, too. > > >> >> Has anyone got any ideas about what I could try to move this forwards? I >> am >> toying with the monodevelop source code right now, but haven't really >> gotten >> very far into it yet. If anyone has any ideas or suggestions I'd love to >> hear them. >> > > The easiest way to poke around the .NETPortable stuff is probably to use > `git log --author=jeff` and then search for .NETPortable (it's how I remind > myself where the source files are!) > > For example, one of the source files > is: > main/src/core/MonoDevelop.Core/MonoDevelop.Projects/PortableDotNetProject.cs > > > Hope that helps, > > Jeff > >
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