Install Xamarin on Visual Studio 2015 with Xamarin on Visual Studio 2013 already installed

Question

I have Xamarin installed on the Visual Studio 2013 on Windows Operating System. It works fine.

There is Xamarin tools in VS2013 as follows:

My problem is as follows:

I have recently installed Visual Studio 2015 on my desktop on Windows operating system. I thought when I opened the VS2015, I expected to see the Xamarin in it, but it does not. Then I installed the Xamarin again, and again and again, but still Xamarin does not show up in VS2015.

I wonder what is wrong? What am I missing?
By the way, I still have VS2013 on my desktop.

No Xamarin tools in VS 2015 as follows:

I even tried the following approach, still no luck.

Control Panel -> Programs -> Programs and Features Choose Xamarin

Click Change -> Next -> Click the desired drop down for each items in the tree view and select "Will be installed on local hard drive."

Click Next

I am even getting the following screen when installation is completed, but still I could not able to see Xamarin in VS2015.

Answer 1

I have installed Xamarin in my Visual Studio 2015 two days ago and it showing Xamarin under Tools. Below I have described the approach which I have followed to install Xamarin in Visual Studio 2015.

Go to Contol Panel >> Program Features >> Visual Studio 2015 >> Change>> Modify

1. Select C#/.Net(Xamarin) under Cross Platform Mobile Development

2. Check if these three red marked items are checked or not.

3. And then press update.It will download all the required packages to run Xamarin on VS 2015.Hope it helps you!!

Answer 2

I recently had horrendous problems trying to install Xamarin on VS2015 + Win10. (I don't have any other VS versions installed.) Even a full install and reinstall left huge holes in the installation. I tried repeatedly and each time the whole dev environment seemed to get itself in a different unusable state.

The fix for me, which is probably hitting a nut with a sledgehammer, was to:

1. Uninstall Xamarin (via Control Panel|Uninstall).
2. Uninstall Visual Studio (via Control Panel|Uninstall).
3. Follow Xamarin's manual uninstallation procedures Full Xamarin Uninstall.
4. Perform full reinstall of Visual Studio, being sure to tick the boxes shown in the answer by Parth Patel above.

This resulted in a faultless, fully functioning Xamarin environment for me. Overkill, maybe, but worth a go if all else fails.