xamarin portable library and Json.net

Question

I am not able to use Json.net in the portable library. I set the portable library to use profile 4.5 -78. It compile fine but during runtime, it throws file not found exception. Any body encountered the same issue?

Answer 1

Nuget is probably adding a reference to the portable-net45+wp80+win8 portable assembly for Json.NET, which is incompatible with the current versions of Xamarin. To get things working you can manually switch the reference to use portable-net40+sl4+wp7+win8

Answer 2

I'm having the same issue with the newer Nuget package (Newtonsoft.Json.6.0.1). To solve the problem, I had to replace the HintPath in the PCL csproj with portable-net40+sl5+wp80+win8+monotouch+monoandroid.

For that, edit manually the csproj file, and locate this section:

<Reference Include="Newtonsoft.Json, Version=...">
  <SpecificVersion>False</SpecificVersion>
  <HintPath>..\packages\Newtonsoft.Json.6.0.1\lib\portable-net45+wp80+win8\Newtonsoft.Json.dll</HintPath>
</Reference>

and adapt the path to the DLL.