How to Fix: Visual Studio for Mac: No SDK found at specified location?

Just a short blog post and fix for the error message which you can have in Visual Studio for Mac.

Today I installed the Homebrew Package Manager for macOS and during the installation it played up with the Command Line Tools for Xcode, after which I got this error when trying to run the Xamarin.Forms project in the Visual Studio for Mac.

Trying to compile an iOS project on the command line return this error:
Could not find a valid Xcode app bundle at '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools'. Please update your Apple SDK location in Visual Studio's preferences (Projects > SDK Locations > Apple > Apple SDK).

If we navigate to the

Visual Studio > Preferences > Projects > SDK Locations > Apple

you will get the following:

Fix which worked for me was to change this to the: /Applications/Xcode.app

I made a quick restart of Visual Studio and after that it worked like a charm! ☺️


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Wish you lots of luck with coding! πŸ‘Œ