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Question

I installed Visual studio 2015 and I'm trying to create a test application for Windows Phone 8.1. When I create a new project, I get this message:

Any suggestions on how to solve this problem?

Answer 1

1. Go to tools>Extensions and updates
2. Search for Visual studio tools for Apache cordova and enable it.
3. Restart visual studio and it will work

Answer 2

Here is the solution:

1. Open Visual Studio and go to Tools > Extensions and Updates
2. Uninstall "NuGet Package Manager for Visual Studio 2015"
3. Restart Visual Studio 2015
4. Open Visual Studio and to Tools > Extensions and Updates again
5. Install "NuGet Package Manager for Visual Studio 2015"
6. Restart Visual Studio 2015

Answer 3

On VS2017 go to "Tools-> Extension and Updates" then find and Check "Xamarin for Visual Studio", it was disable, i enabled it, and restarted. Worked for me.

Refer: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/83460/cannot-create-a-new-xamarin-project-using-vs2017.html