How do you forcibly rebuild * .designer.cs files in Xamarin build command line?

Question

I am creating an iOS Xamarin app from the command line. The * designer.cs files have been removed.

What command should I execute to restore * .designer.cs files?

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James moore Dec 29. 15 at 17:58

3 answers

Martijn00 · Answer 1 · 2014-12-30T10:54:12+0000

This section has 3 questions:

If you want to build from the command line, it is explained in this section: How to build the command line of a Xamarin.iOS project?
To ignore * .designer.cs you can add a template to your .git file called git ignore: http://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore
To recover the designer files, you can simply rebuild your solution.

Andy dent · Answer 2 · 2016-11-13T04:51:55+0000

Found in Xamarin Studio 6

Based on this forum thread, the rather awkward sequence that worked for me was

Marco castanheira · Answer 3 · 2015-03-14T23:48:24+0000

For Xamarin Studio 5.8, if you edit the file that started the .cs designer, save again and rebuild the project, it will regenerate the .cs designer