reactiveui-events not working for platform projects possibly related to PackageReference style projects

[PureWeen]

Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?
bug

What is the current behavior?
I converted my projects all over to sdk style for shared projects and PackageReference for platform projects. After this was done (and compiling) I upgraded to the latest alpha bits of ReactiveUI and then all my ".events()" code stopped working

If the current behavior is a bug, please provide the steps to reproduce and if possible a minimal demo of the problem
https://github.com/PureWeen/ReactiveUiEvents

Compile the SLN and see the errors

What is the expected behavior?
.Events() works in platform projects

What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior?
.Events() works in platform projects

Which versions of ReactiveUI, and which platform / OS are affected by this issue? Did this work in previous versions of ReativeUI? Please also test with the latest stable and development snapshot

Does not work in 8.0.0-alpha0105
Works in 7.4.0

Other information (e.g. stacktraces, related issues, suggestions how to fix)

[ghuntley]

reactiveui-events-xamforms

All good!

reactiveui-events w/Xamarin.Android (Your csproj)

I can repro the problem

Strangely enough the actual assembly contains the right stuff but visual studio isn't referencing it.

reactiveui-events w/Xamarin.Android (Xamarin packages.config template)

Using File -> New Android Application and then installing reactiveui-v8 -pre works

However using your packageref project does not. This suggests something wrong either with Xamarin toolchain (you're doing something that isn't supported/implemented yet) or something was missed when you converted the csproj (maybe a property isn't set right)

[ghuntley]

@PureWeen Xamarin are working on official templates that use PackageReference; checking via backchannels if they are available for private preview and if so; I can share insights from them. Once I have these I'll be able to troubleshoot this further. For now - how did you convert your csproj? Was their a guide you followed? Link please.

[PureWeen]

• The included project wasn't created by me converting anything from the old format. I have VS set to use Package Reference by default (Tools => options => Nuget Package Manager => General => Default package management format: PackageReference) so what you see here is just what VS creates

• I did a bad job of filling out questions when creating the ticket 👎 This all works fine in v7 but does not work in v8

• The issue specifically happens if you reference a second project that has the reactiveui-xamforms-events nuget in it as well. In my included sample if you remove the reference to the netstandard project then the platform project compiles fine or if you uninstall the reactiveui-xamforms-events package from the netstandard project then it all compiles fine as well.

I pushed up another revision of my sample and you'll see a project called "FreshLonelyAndroidProject" that compiles fine

Then if you add the "AzureDeviceClient" as a project reference to it it no longer compiles

in v7 the dll was named ReactiveUI.Events_XamForms.dll where as v8 it's ReactiveUI.Events.dll which is the same name as the platform one.

Are they colliding because of this?

[ghuntley]

@PureWeen thx for the repro project. Confirming this was a bug which was caused by different event packages using the name assembly name. Resolved and new packages pushed to NuGet.