How do you force regeneration of *.designer.cs files in a command-line Xamarin build?

Question

I'm building an iOS Xamarin app from the command line. The *designer.cs files have been removed.

What command do I run to regenerate the *.designer.cs files?

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 13 '16 at 04:51

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Encountered in Xamarin Studio 6

Based on this forum thread the fairly awkward sequence that worked for me was

answered Nov 13 '16 at 04:51

Andy Dent

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:32

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There are actually 3 questions in this topic:

If you want to build from command line is explained in this topic: How do you do a command line build of a Xamarin.iOS project?
To ignore *.designer.cs you can add a pattern to your .git file called git ignore: http://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore
To regenerate the designer files you can simply rebuild your solution.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:32

Community

answered Dec 30 '14 at 10:54

Martijn00

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I edited the question to make it clear that I'm not asking the first two. And unfortunately, #3 is wrong; there's no mechanism I know about that creates those *designer.cs files at build time. – James Moore Dec 30 '14 at 23:42

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 14 '15 at 23:48

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For Xamarin Studio 5.8, if you edit the file that originated the designer.cs, save again and rebuild the project it will regenerate the designer.cs

answered Mar 14 '15 at 23:48

Marco Castanheira

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Unfortunately, this is not true in 5.9.4. – James Moore Jul 09 '15 at 18:53
Another way to go is the creating an empty class and name it with .designer.cs and ensure that contains only the class declaration empty with the Register ("") line over declaration. Then just go to your view and set the Identify>Class Property value with the class inside that .designer.cs – Jorge Wander Santana Ureña Jul 01 '16 at 14:35

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