When Xamarin develops Android, Visual Studio 2012 does not have a smart tips solution

Most of the people who work with Xamarin's Mono for Android in Visual Studio-face a bug where Intellisense doesn ' t wo RK for AXML in Source view.

One of the fix which worked for me is mentioned below.

2. Launch Visual Studio 2012
4. Open a solution with. AXML file in it
6. Now XML main Menu should is visible on top
8. Open "Schemas ..." menu
10. Sort by ' File Name ' column and see if ' Android-layout-xml ' and ' schemas.android.com.apk.res.android ' are there. If found, skip to step 13
12. If not found, go to "Program Files" if 32-bit system or "Program Files (x86)" If 64-bit system.
14. Then go to "\msbuild\novell" or "\msbuild\xamarin\android"
16. You should is able to see 2 files "android-layout-xml.xsd" and "schemas.android.com.apk.res.android.xsd"
18. Copy these 2 files to "\microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\xml\schemas"
20. Again Open the "Schemas ..." menu as mentioned in steps 3&4
22. Now click "Add ..." button and Add these 2 files which should is located as mentioned in step 7 & 8
24. Now restart Visual Studio and the XML editor for design layout should work fine with Intellisense
26. From step 5 ....
28. If above steps don ' t work, then close the Visual Studio 2012.
30. Now open "Developer command prompt for Vs2012″under Windows Programs menu.
32. Type "Devenv/resetsettings" without quotes.
34. Launch Visual Studio and see if Intellisense works.
36. If still not working, better go to Xamarin forums and post there.
    
    
    

Note: The Visual Studio installation directory will have a monodroidcatalog.xml file that is good to change to the following: [I am 64-bit, 32-bit No (86)]

<schemacatalog xmlns= "Http://schemas.microsoft.com/xsd/catalog" >
<schema href= "%programfiles (x86)%/msbuild/xamarin/android/android-layout-xml.xsd" targetNamespace= "http:/ /schemas.android.com/apk/res/android " />
<schema href= "%programfiles (x86)%/msbuild/xamarin/android/schemas.android.com.apk.res.android.xsd" Targetnamespace= "Http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"/>

<association extension= "Axml" schema= "%programfiles (x86)%/msbuild/xamarin/android/android-layout-xml.xsd"/ >
</SchemaCatalog>

The red mark part is my manual addition. After saving this file I restart Vs and then create a new. axml file after the cute smart tip comes out.