Tag: OSX

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Xamarin Build Server – The Pin You Entered is Invalid

on November 20, 2014

If you’ve recently updated your Mac to Yosemite, you may be having trouble connecting Visual Studio to the Xamarin Build server.

You know you’re entering the connection pin correctly but you keep seeing the error message…

“The Pin You Entered is Invalid”

Don’t worry, you’re not crazy … It turns out that changes to the network stack in the Yosemite edition of OSX are causing problems in the communication between Xamarin within Visual Studio (running on Windows) and the Xamarin build server (running on OSX).

The Good News: The solution is simple…
Update Yosemite to the latest version, restart Visual Studio and the Xamarin build server and then all should be well.

For more detail on what happened, checkout this discussion of the issue over at Xamarin.

 

Programming Stuff

Xamarin Android SDK Problems on Mac Yosemite

on November 5, 2014

If you’re running into problems launching the Android SDK from w/in Xamarin Studio (or other Java-based tools) on Mac Yosemite, the issue is likely that you need to update your Java environment BUT…

… the solution is not the update that’s suggested in the error message.

Instead use this link from Apple.

That should get you all fixed up.

I came across this solution on a few forums, including this Xamarin Forum … I want to be sure and give credit to the hard work of the folks who worked this one out!