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xamarin ios DEBUGGING SYMBOLE FOR FILE IS NOT VALID AND WAS IGNORED

I have an xamarin flyout application. I have all the latest updates. However every time I build the application I have to go into appdata/local/Xamarin and delete all the IOS folders or I get an error message stating the debug symbol file is not valid and was ignored. I have googled and googled and googled and I cannot find anything that seems to work. I have went into properties and changed debugging information to Portable, Full, None.....same issue everytime. I have deleted the bin files. I have no clue as to why this is happening. PLEASE ANY HELP WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED

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TianyuSun-MSFT answered TianyuSun-MSFT commented

Hi @SethIsaacks-4659 ,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum.

Please try to clean(Build > Clean Solution) your solution, and then go to your solution folder, delete the hidden .vs folder, and bin, obj folders.

After that delete the cache files as you mentioned “go into appdata/local/Xamarin and delete all the IOS folders”. Then go to Tools > Import and Export Settings… > Reset all settings > choose “No, just reset settings, overwriting my current settings” > choose “General” > Finish.

Finally, change the debugging information to Portable, and then rebuild your solution and try to see if it works this time.

If above steps don’t work, consider this is a potential issue, I suggest you directly report it to VS Product Team, from VS > Help > Send Feedback > Report a Problem…

Best Regards,
Tianyu


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@TianyuSun-MSFT I had read what you stated above online in another source and I tired that multiple times with no avail. I have a few warnings in my app generated from nuget packages.....causing conflicts between assemblies. Once I resolved those it seemed to start building and working again. I wouldn't have thought warnings would cause issues like the dbug not to work but it apparently did.

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Hi @SethIsaacks-4659 , thanks for the reply, so after resolving the warnings, the debug feature works well as normal now?

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