Xamarin-macios: Can't open Storyboard file in iOS Designer when check the safe area layout guides

Created on 26 Jun 2018  路  16Comments  路  Source: xamarin/xamarin-macios

Problem Statement

When the customer check the safe area layout guides in his storyboard file, customer unable open the storyboard file in iOS designer.

safe

mac_vs

But if customer uncheck the safe area layout guides it is working fine.

Everything works fine when the customer use the older version of VS 7.5.0 for Mac and XCode 9.3, but when I help them installed the older version of VS for Mac and XCode, the issue still persists.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Copy customer's storyboard to a blank project, open this storyboard, everything works fine because it didn't check the safe area layout guides.

  2. Uncheck the safe area layout guides, close customer's storyboard and open again, the issue happened.

  • When the customer creats a blank Xamarin.iOS project, can't reproduce this issue.
  • When the customer creates a blank Storyboard in this project, also can't reproduce this issue.

Expected Behavior

Could open the Storyboard like this:

fine

Actual Behavior

mac_vs

Environment

Visual Studio Community 2017 for Mac
Version 7.5.3 (build 7)

Xamarin.iOS
Version: 11.12.0.4 (Visual Studio Community)

Runtime:
    Mono 5.10.1.57 (2017-12/ea8a24b1bbf) (64-bit)
    GTK+ 2.24.23 (Raleigh theme)
    Xamarin.Mac 4.4.1.178 (master / eeaeb7e6)

    Package version: 510010057

NuGet
Version: 4.3.1.4445

.NET Core
Runtime: /usr/local/share/dotnet/dotnet
Runtime Versions:
    2.0.5
    2.0.0
SDK: /usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk/2.1.4/Sdks
SDK Versions:
    2.1.4
    2.0.0
MSBuild SDKs: /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/5.10.1/lib/mono/msbuild/15.0/bin/Sdks

Xamarin.Profiler
Version: 1.6.2
Location: /Applications/Xamarin Profiler.app/Contents/MacOS/Xamarin Profiler

Apple Developer Tools
Xcode 9.4.1 (14161)
Build 9F2000

Xamarin.Mac
Version: 4.4.1.193 (Visual Studio Community)

Xamarin.iOS
Version: 11.12.0.4 (Visual Studio Community)
Hash: 64fece5f
Branch: d15-7
Build date: 2018-05-29 20:00:44-0400

Xamarin.Android
Version: 8.3.3.2 (Visual Studio Community)
Android SDK: /Users/manjunath/Library/Developer/Xamarin/android-sdk-macosx
    Supported Android versions:
        8.1 (API level 27)

SDK Tools Version: 26.1.1
SDK Platform Tools Version: 27.0.1
SDK Build Tools Version: 27.0.3

Java SDK: /usr
java version "1.8.0_131"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_131-b11)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.131-b11, mixed mode)

Android Designer EPL code available here:
https://github.com/xamarin/AndroidDesigner.EPL

Xamarin Inspector
Version: 1.4.0
Hash: b3f92f9
Branch: master
Build date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 22:00:34 GMT
Client compatibility: 1

Build Information
Release ID: 705030007
Xamarin addins: 7065de97cf22c9038fdc39dd627f2c30790fd8af
Build lane: monodevelop-lion-d15-7

Operating System
Mac OS X 10.13.5
Darwin 17.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 17.6.0

Enabled user installed addins
Internet of Things (IoT) development (Preview) 7.5

Build Logs

StoryBoardErrorLogs_1.txt
StoryBoardErrorLogs_2.txt

Example Project (If Possible)

Customer has concern about this, so I could only share with you the issue Storyboard via email.

VS bug #638594

external-designer
Source
picture aixiaozi

Most helpful comment

@aixiaozi Thanks for reporting this and for your patience while we look into it. In the meantime, you might try the VS 15.8 preview (VS for Mac 7.6), where the issue should already be resolved.

picture chkn on 18 Jul 2018
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@alanmcgovern - Just double checking if this is labeled correctly

therealjohn picture therealjohn on 26 Jun 2018

Have shared the issue storyboard via email. :)

aixiaozi picture aixiaozi on 4 Jul 2018
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@viniciusjarina , is there any updates about this issue?

aixiaozi picture aixiaozi on 10 Jul 2018

@aixiaozi Thanks for reporting this and for your patience while we look into it. In the meantime, you might try the VS 15.8 preview (VS for Mac 7.6), where the issue should already be resolved.

chkn picture chkn on 18 Jul 2018
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@chkn thx a lot!

aixiaozi picture aixiaozi on 24 Jul 2018

The kind of problem that causes this issue has been resolved and we've added some user visible warning messages when mismatches occur. This will allow people to detect and resolve the problem themselves in future. The additional informational feature will ship in a future release and the bug which caused the problem in the first place has been resolved in 15.8.

Thanks for the report!

alanmcgovern picture alanmcgovern on 27 Jul 2018
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Still Issue persists in latest visual studio and Xcode 10
problem in rendering storyboard file in iOS Designer.

=== Visual Studio Community 2017 for Mac ===

Version 7.6.8 (build 38)
Installation UUID: 56c55974-b747-4502-b0f1-526429432dbc
Runtime:
Mono 5.12.0.309 (2018-02/39d89a335c8) (64-bit)
GTK+ 2.24.23 (Raleigh theme)
Xamarin.Mac 4.4.1.178 (master / eeaeb7e6)

Package version: 512000309

=== NuGet ===

Version: 4.3.1.4445

=== .NET Core ===

Runtime: /usr/local/share/dotnet/dotnet
Runtime Versions:
2.1.2
2.1.1
SDK: /usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk/2.1.302/Sdks
SDK Versions:
2.1.302
2.1.301
MSBuild SDKs: /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/5.12.0/lib/mono/msbuild/15.0/bin/Sdks

=== Xamarin.Profiler ===

Version: 1.6.3
Location: /Applications/Xamarin Profiler.app/Contents/MacOS/Xamarin Profiler

=== Apple Developer Tools ===

Xcode 10.0 (14320.25)
Build 10A255

=== Xamarin.Mac ===

Version: 5.0.0.0 (Visual Studio Community)
Hash: b40230c0
Branch:
Build date: 2018-09-27 11:41:37-0400

=== Xamarin.iOS ===

Version: 12.0.0.15 (Visual Studio Community)
Hash: 84552a46
Branch: xcode10
Build date: 2018-09-17 21:54:33-0400

=== Xamarin.Android ===

Version: 9.0.0.20 (Visual Studio Community)
Android SDK: /Users/manjunatha/Library/Developer/Xamarin/android-sdk-macosx
Supported Android versions:
8.1 (API level 27)

SDK Tools Version: 26.1.1
SDK Platform Tools Version: 27.0.1
SDK Build Tools Version: 27.0.3

Java SDK: /usr
java version "1.8.0_131"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_131-b11)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.131-b11, mixed mode)

Android Designer EPL code available here:
https://github.com/xamarin/AndroidDesigner.EPL

=== Xamarin Inspector ===

Version: 1.4.3
Hash: db27525
Branch: 1.4-release
Build date: Mon, 09 Jul 2018 21:20:18 GMT
Client compatibility: 1

=== Build Information ===

Release ID: 706080038
Git revision: f4178f550a4de7c03aa23678041abe4fc388cf72
Build date: 2018-09-28 14:21:41+00
Build branch: release-7.6
Xamarin extensions: 051b653186a95ced1c127dfd8c358df1b9315d0d

=== Operating System ===

Mac OS X 10.13.6
Darwin 17.7.0 Darwin Kernel Version 17.7.0
Thu Jun 21 22:53:14 PDT 2018
root:xnu-4570.71.2~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

manjunathaVadhiraaju picture manjunathaVadhiraaju on 4 Oct 2018

Can you share a storyboard which reproduces the problem? The issue we addressed did not occur in the 7.6 release so the patch we created was not included in that particular release.

alanmcgovern picture alanmcgovern on 4 Oct 2018

YourdrsStoryboard.storyboard.zip

Please find the attached storyboard file.When we enable safe area layout guide in Xcode.It is not opening in Visualstudio IOS Designer.

manjunathaVadhiraaju picture manjunathaVadhiraaju on 5 Oct 2018

Hello @manjunathaVadhiraaju

Sorry to hear that the problem is still happening for you. I've downloaded your storyboard and tried to open with the same version of VS4M you have Version 7.6.8 (build 38) and enabled the Safe Area Layout.

Unfortunately, I can't repro the issue 馃槙

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viniciusjarina picture viniciusjarina on 5 Oct 2018

@viniciusjarina Hi, @manjunathaVadhiraaju has resolved this issue by reinstalled VS and Xcode 10.

aixiaozi picture aixiaozi on 1 Nov 2018

Great! We'll close this issue again. Please do reopen if you have further issues!

alanmcgovern picture alanmcgovern on 1 Nov 2018

I have a similar problem
On two computers
For: Visual Studio Professional 2017 for Mac
Version 7.6.11 (build 9)
Installation UUID: 8c093965-9c85-434e-8310-de5be366a839
Runtime:
Mono 5.12.0.309 (2018-02/39d89a335c8) (64-bit)
GTK+ 2.24.23 (Raleigh theme)
Xamarin.Mac 4.4.1.178 (master / eeaeb7e6)

Package version: 512000309

NuGet
Version: 4.3.1.4445

.NET Core
Runtime: /usr/local/share/dotnet/dotnet
Runtime Versions:
2.1.3
2.1.2
2.1.1
2.0.6
SDK: /usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk/2.1.302/Sdks
SDK Versions:
2.1.302
2.1.301
2.1.101
MSBuild SDKs: /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/5.12.0/lib/mono/msbuild/15.0/bin/Sdks

Xamarin.Profiler
Version: 1.6.3
Location: /Applications/Xamarin Profiler.app/Contents/MacOS/Xamarin Profiler

Apple Developer Tools
Xcode 10.1 (14460.46)
Build 10B61

Xamarin.Mac
Version: 5.0.0.0 (Visual Studio Professional)
Hash: b40230c0
Branch:
Build date: 2018-09-27 11:41:37-0400

Xamarin.iOS
Version: 12.1.0.15 (Visual Studio Professional)
Hash: cbfb047a
Branch: xcode10.1
Build date: 2018-10-30 22:57:23-0400

Xamarin.Android
Not Installed

Xamarin Inspector
Version: 1.4.3
Hash: db27525
Branch: 1.4-release
Build date: Mon, 09 Jul 2018 21:20:18 GMT
Client compatibility: 1

Build Information
Release ID: 706110009
Git revision: d7cd66f5e3acd3d46ba0b94a0c935378f828bde0
Build date: 2018-10-31 17:17:12+00
Build branch: release-7.6
Xamarin extensions: bc9b985bfcb480b04a208a6d4045adc443a07857

Operating System
Mac OS X 10.14.1
Darwin 18.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 18.2.0
Fri Oct 5 19:41:49 PDT 2018
root:xnu-4903.221.2~2/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

KIzotov picture KIzotov on 8 Nov 2018

Can you share a project, or possibly just the storyboard, with us so we can diagnose the issue. We can organise a private way to do that if you can鈥檛 share the file publicly.

A copy of the log files from a session where you triggered the issue would also be helpful!

alanmcgovern picture alanmcgovern on 8 Nov 2018

With Xcode 9 works
I鈥檓 not able to upload a storyboard
Problem with Xcode 10 and Xcode 10.1

KIzotov picture KIzotov on 8 Nov 2018

We will need more information to be able to diagnose the issue. At the least we'll need the logs to know where to start looking.

If you could do this it would help:

1) Click "Help -> Open Log Directory" and delete all existing log files
2) Restart Visual Studio Mac
3) Trigger the issue again
4) Click Help -> Open Log Directory, zip up all the logs, and either attach them to this github issue or send them to us another way.

Thanks!

alanmcgovern picture alanmcgovern on 8 Nov 2018
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