A couple of weeks back, my fully working Visual Studio/Xamarin dev environment suddenly decided it couldn't find any simulators. They appear in the run-targets list but when I try to run I get the error shown in 'Screenshot 1.png'. When I stop debugging I then get 'Screenshot 2.png'.
I ended up wiping XCode on the Mac, clearing any other Xamarin locations I could find, uninstalling the whole of Visual Studio on the PC and reinstalling everything fresh. And I still get the same error.
There seems to be a dearth of recent posts on the internet about anything similar to this so I have no idea how to fix it.
More generally, I have a pet hate of software that stores things in spooky, hidden places, thus making fresh installs impossible unless you know the system inside-out. One of the things I love about the iOS way of doing things is that deleting an app really is a case of just deleting it. I know it creates other problems, but this containerised way of doing things has to be the future. Right now, I'd love simply to be able to restore my whole development environment from my last known working container image!
Rant over. Any help or advice would be most welcome as this is a complete show-stopper right now.
Patrick


