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I have installed Visual Studio for Mac (7.0.1 build 24 Community Edition), generated a new project using Forms, and could not get it to compile. The error shown makes no sense to me since the code looks correct.

I have not made any change to the code. It is as generated by the Wizard.

I have tried the following ways of setting up, on different machines:

  1. Using Home Brew
  2. Using the Visual Studio For Mac installer

Any pointers on how to work around this one will help.

Please look below Error Message

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Ziyad Godil
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Navneet Karnani
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  • Could you show the complete file where this error is appearing? You named your app TestApp-Xamarin? The name of your app becomes the global namespace and C# doesn't allow dashes "-" in any identifier. Try creating a new app without the dash. – pinedax Aug 02 '17 at 04:19
  • Hah !! The IDE should not have allowed this, or the error message should have been a little more explicit about it. Obviously led me down a different track. – Navneet Karnani Aug 02 '17 at 04:45

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You cannot have a dash in your namespace. Try using TestAppXamarin or TestApp.Xamarin instead:

namespace TestApp.Xamarin {
    public class TestAppClass { }
}
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