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I cannot see any archives in Archive Manager, and when commanding "Archive..." project in Solution Explorer, no new archives appear, despite no visible errors.
This worked fine a few weeks ago (even though mainaining a seesion with the mac long enough for a build could literally take 2 days of cleaning, restarting, rebooting, etc).
Nothing appears in the Archive manager.
I uninstalled VS, reinstalled, and I could archive an Android build, but not the iOS version.
Closed VS, reopened, and the Android archive had gone.
Since then, I cannot archive either project..
Both Android & iOS project build, and run on devices just fine.
Help???! I've already been trying everything I can for three days..
Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2019 Preview
Version 16.9.0 Preview 2.0
VisualStudio.16.Preview/16.9.0-pre.2.0+30803.129
Microsoft .NET Framework
Version 4.8.04084
Installed Version: Community
ASP.NET and Web Tools 2019 16.9.311.8738
ASP.NET and Web Tools 2019
Azure App Service Tools v3.0.0 16.9.311.8738
Azure App Service Tools v3.0.0
C# Tools 3.9.0-2.20602.2+eb0a7ff1c241695e17b07b096593804fdd5cfcfd
C# components used in the IDE. Depending on your project type and settings, a different version of the compiler may be used.
Common Azure Tools 1.10
Provides common services for use by Azure Mobile Services and Microsoft Azure Tools.
Extensibility Message Bus 1.2.6 (master@34d6af2)
Provides common messaging-based MEF services for loosely coupled Visual Studio extension components communication and integration.
IntelliCode Extension 1.0
IntelliCode Visual Studio Extension Detailed Info
Microsoft JVM Debugger 1.0
Provides support for connecting the Visual Studio debugger to JDWP compatible Java Virtual Machines
Microsoft MI-Based Debugger 1.0
Provides support for connecting Visual Studio to MI compatible debuggers
Mono Debugging for Visual Studio 16.9.7 (df23ba6)
Support for debugging Mono processes with Visual Studio.
NuGet Package Manager 5.9.0
NuGet Package Manager in Visual Studio. For more information about NuGet, visit https://docs.nuget.org/
ProjectServicesPackage Extension 1.0
ProjectServicesPackage Visual Studio Extension Detailed Info
TypeScript Tools 16.0.21120.2001
TypeScript Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio
Visual Basic Tools 3.9.0-2.20602.2+eb0a7ff1c241695e17b07b096593804fdd5cfcfd
Visual Basic components used in the IDE. Depending on your project type and settings, a different version of the compiler may be used.
Visual F# Tools 16.9.0-beta.20567.7+c02b2ef997f1dd07993e1f85b017c858bdf82530
Microsoft Visual F# Tools
Visual Studio Code Debug Adapter Host Package 1.0
Interop layer for hosting Visual Studio Code debug adapters in Visual Studio
Visual Studio Tools for Unity 4.9.0.0
Visual Studio Tools for Unity
VisualStudio.DeviceLog 1.0
Information about my package
VisualStudio.Foo 1.0
Information about my package
VisualStudio.Mac 1.0
Mac Extension for Visual Studio
Xamarin 16.9.000.196 (main@7f5b5b9)
Visual Studio extension to enable development for Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android.
Xamarin Designer 16.9.0.105 (remotes/origin/c2adbf832aee3f27874ac90b17c433d311053b06@c2adbf832)
Visual Studio extension to enable Xamarin Designer tools in Visual Studio.
Xamarin Templates 16.9.41 (0d792de)
Templates for building iOS, Android, and Windows apps with Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms.
Xamarin.Android SDK 11.1.99.218 (master/9bc0003)
Xamarin.Android Reference Assemblies and MSBuild support.
Mono: ac59637
Java.Interop: xamarin/java.interop/master@99897b2
ProGuard: Guardsquare/proguard/v7.0.0@84e8560
SQLite: xamarin/sqlite/3.32.1@1a3276b
Xamarin.Android Tools: xamarin/xamarin-android-tools/main@ab650f5
Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Mac SDK 14.9.0.27 (f4c9327fa)
Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Mac Reference Assemblies and MSBuild support.
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I got exact the same problem after upgrading to VS 16.8.2. Before that the Archive Manager worked fine.
After new upgrade to 16.8.4 the problem still remains. Since I'm using VS Community there is no way to downgrade. Now I have been stuck for over a month and cannot deliver to costumer.
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Were you able to solve this? I upgraded to 16.9, which is stable release, and Archive option for Android is gone.
Yeah, I found the option "Archive..." by right-clicking the project in the Solution view.
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I think the Archive option is missing with the latest update 16.9.1
I just updated and mine is now missing. I can only view archives, but not create a new one
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Same problem with 16.9.2. Help!!
I just upgraded VS2019 from 16.8 to 16.11.6 in order to get Android SDK 30.
Now the "Archive..." menu item is missing.
None of the above suggestions work.
Help!
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I uninstalled Xamarin Forms in NuGet and reinstalled Xamarin Forms.
My Archive came back.
I've found that it does reappear, but I can't seem to create a definitive series of steps to cause that to happen.
Seems to reappear after you've used a number of other VS functions (!).
Might also be a timing-related thing, e.g. VS is doing some background initialization & you just gotta be patient.
In any case, the behavior is frustrating.
Try Repair Android SDK
I got the same problem and after repairing the SDK, and reopen the solution, the "Archive" Appears again
Tools ---> Android ----> Android SDK Manager
You are a life saver, this works for me, Thanks a lot..!
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This solution worked for me, thanks!!
Hello,
Welcome to Microsoft Q&A!
I test to archive android and iOS project with Visual Studio 16.8.2 , everything works fine .
I suggest you install the latest stable version 16.8.3 instead of the preview version 16.9.0.
Thank you.
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