For my Xamarin Forms project (latest version 1.3), when I create a view in Xamarin Studio (latest, 5.5.4), I define the view as the following:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ContentPage xmlns="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml" x:Class="FormsDemo.Register">
<ContentPage.Content>
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition />
<RowDefinition />
<RowDefinition />
<RowDefinition />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="100" />
<ColumnDefinition />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Label Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0" Text="First Name" />
<Entry x:Name="FirstName" Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="1" />
<Label Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="0" Text="Last Name" />
<Entry x:Name="LastName" Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="1" />
<Label Grid.Row="2" Grid.Column="0" Text="Email" />
<Entry x:Name="Email" Grid.Row="2" Grid.Column="1" />
<Button x:Name="SaveButton" Grid.Row="3" Grid.Column="0" Text="Login" />
</Grid>
</ContentPage.Content>
</ContentPage>
However, in my code-behind, any references to the control by its name are not being found at all. The following code is erroring (noted by comments):
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Xamarin.Forms;
namespace FormsDemo
{
public partial class Register : ContentPage
{
public Register ()
{
InitializeComponent ();
//Using this approach worked, but is not ideal
this.FindByName<Button>("SaveButton").Clicked += Save_Clicked;
}
void Save_Clicked (object sender, EventArgs e)
{
this.FirstName.Text = "A";
this.LastName.Text= "B";
}
}
}
Oddly enough, I was getting warnings with:
Warning: The private field `FormsDemo.Register.FirstName' is assigned but its value is never used (FormsDemo.Solution)
I get one for each field. Why is this not working? How do I get IntelliSense to work?