I am receiving this exception when opening a solution containing a
Xamarin.Forms PCL project and its respective Android/iOS/Windows Phone
projects. The assembly it cannot load and it is referencing is the PCL project
itself. In addition, it shows "Version=, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken="
after the assembly name in the exception message. Furthermore, I get lots of
errors along the lines of "InitializeComponent doesn't exist in the current
context", "The type or namespace name 'App' does not exist in the namespace..."
Cleaning the solution and restarting Visual Studio does not help. All of this
was working fine yesterday until I updated to the latest "stable" version of
Xamarin.Forms.
My Xamarin installation is completely
broken. I get these errors with any new project I start. Reinstalling Xamarin
did not help. I think the issues started when I updated Xamarin via the alpha channel, then reverted to the stable release. Ever since, nothing has worked correctly. I have tried alpha, beta, and stable and they all seem to have this issue.