Resource.designer.cs NOT regenerating in Mono (Xamarin Studio)

Question

I'm currently developing an app with Mono, I recently updated to Xamarin Studio 4.0.8, and was having problems with the design elements not being added to the solution.

I tried to edit manually the designer.cs, and later on I erased it, hoping the program will regenerate it again, with the layout changes.

I have tried:

• Rebuilding it

• Cleaning and rebuilding

• Erasing the file through the file explorer

And it still doesn't regenerate properly, Xamarin creates the Resource.designer.cs but it's empty, and when compiling it returns this:

Error CS0103: The name 'Resource' doesn't exist in the current context (CS0103)

Help please...

Answer 1

Lots of time having this issue. What i did:

1. Remove "resources.designer.cs" using Xamarin (secondary button->remove).
2. Go to command line (finder on Mac/Explorer on Windows) and delete manually the file (be sure you deleted it).
3. Go to Xamarin, clean->build (this will regenerate the resoruces.designer.cs).
4. As you remove the file from the project, you have to add it again. secondary button over project-> add Files->select Resources.designer.cs (tipically on /Resources folder).
5. Make sure the "Build Action" of the Resource.designer.cs file is Compile (sometimes it takes a different build action by default).
6. Clean and build.

At least it have worked most of the time.

Answer 2

I had this happen a while back. If you right click on your XML file, and click properties. Make sure that the Build Action is set to "AndroidResource"

If I recall correctly that fixed it