Adding xamarin android controls to visual studio toolbox

Question

I was working with Xamarin Visual studio and suddenly I just deleted some of the controls from Visual Studio toolbox pane in android designer.

I tried adding them using (right click on toolbox/choose items), but I don't know where the assembly of the controls live.

Does anyone know how to add the controls back?

Answer 1

simple fix

Deleting the *.tbd in the following dir on Windows worked for me...

C:\Users[Current user]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\version of
visual studio\

sometimes the file was hidden so do this.

go to this folder

"C:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\VisualStudio\version of visual studio"

that's it. Happy Coding

Answer 2

Yo need to have Android SDK tools and Android SDK platform tools both installed. In my case Android SDK platform tools was not installed for some reason. Got Visual studio-->Tools-->Android-->SDK Maanger and check if both the tools are isnatlled. If not please install both the packages.