Solving Visual Studio and Xamarin issues by looking at the log files

Cross-platform mobile application development works nicely with Xamarin and its integrated development tools that work inside Visual Studio. I've used Xamarin to build several mobile applications now, but from time to time, the Xamarin integration has issues that can be resolved by restarting Visual Studio.

When this happens, it's good to know that the Xamarin tools save log files onto your computer. The location for these log files isn't advertised much though, so you need to be aware where they are. The path is (in the current version):

C:\Users\my-user-name\AppData\Local\Xamarin\Logs\14.0

From there, you can find text-based log files for your Xamarin sessions. This can aid in troubleshooting.

Hope this helps!