The "User7ZipPath" parameter is not supported

Question

Recently, I have been getting this error a lot and from some research, I got to know that the cause for it is the Xamarin.Build package.

The error text is as follows:

The "User7ZipPath" parameter is not supported by the "XamarinDownloadArchives" task. Verify the parameter exists on the task, and it is a settable public instance property.

I have tried the solution here and here but nothing helped.

My configuration is as follows:

Xamarin version: 4.7.10.38

Visual Studio 2015

The Error occurs when I update the xamarin build NuGet package, If anyone has a solution to this problem please help me.

Thanks.

Answer 1

At last after all this time I was able to solve this problem.

The problem was with Xamarin.Build.Download package.

Now this package had a problem in version 4.7 where it is unable to find the XamarinDownloadArchives task.

I checked a lot of places and for the answer but nothing seemed to help with this issue after that I removed the bin, obj folders for all my projects.

And Updated my Xamarin.Build.Download package to version 0.4.11 and everything started working.

I hope this helps someone else, In case of any queries related to this issue feel free to comment.