Still getting ITMS-90809: Deprecated API Usage after using --optimize=force-rejected-types-removal - xamarin.forms

This has been killing me for the last couple of days. I have read everything I can find on this error and have done what xamarin says but it still doesn't work.
I can't get my builds to get through azure pipeline xamarin.ios build and deploy to apple.
When I build locally I get messages like
MTOUCH : warning MT1502: One or more reference(s) to type 'UIKit.UIWebView' already exists inside 'Xamarin.Forms.Platform.iOS, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' before linking
with a companion message that says no references after linking
when I use --warn-on-type-ref=UIKit.UIWebView with the optimize arg.
When I build on azure in my pipeline, I only see the MT1502 but nothing saying anything after linking. The build gets submitted to Apple and fails because of the ITMS message.
I don't know what to do. I am using the latest macOS vm image, mono 6.8.0.123, xamarin.ios 13.16.0.13, xcode 11.4.1. The pipeline worked fine before April 30 deadline, now no matter what, I can't get the linker to strip UIWebView.
Let me know what other info would be helpful. I am completely stuck at this point.
Thanks.

I just got my build to pass Apple's inspection.
What ended up working for me was building locally and packaging the ipa file. On my mac I then changed the ipa extension to zip and unzipped it. I used terminal to go to the YOURAPPNAME.app "folder" and used grep -r UIWebView . to search for references. Don't forget the . so it searches the current directory. I missed that at first and got some message that grep was listening on stdin.
For me that resulted in a line like this:
Binary file ./Frameworks/PersonalizedAdConsent.framework/PersonalizedAdConsent matches
Now, the important thing to note is the linker never warned about this, so I was completely unaware of it. In my case it was part of Firebase/Admob. I was only one release behind and updating to the latest fixed my problem.
I still am using --optimize=force-rejected-types-removal --warn-on-type-ref=UIKit.UIWebView -warnaserror:1503 as my mtouch args. But builds now get through.
I hope this helps point you guys in the right direction, I've spent the last 3 days just trying to get builds to upload reading every post I could find on the web on this problem.

Solved !! I had to update the way how nugets are included to the iOS project .csproj file. The problem was that linker despite the --optimize=force-rejected-types-removal flag was not removing the UIWebView component form Xamarin.Forms 4.6 probably because it did not see it.
My project was created over two years ago and I was still using the packages.config file. After the update the flag started to work and grep query returned 0 :). The best way is to compare the old .csproj file with freshly created iOS project .csproj file and see how VS is referencing nugets.

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QT deployment doesn't work missing entry point

I'm working on my second application in QT and i'm trying to deploy a rough copy for testing. It would not run on a test computer, runs with no problems on mine, giving the error "Procedure Entry Point _ZdaPVJ not found in QT5core.dll". So to make sure that was not my program messing things up, i created a blank test application, compile it for release, moved the test.exe to a different location, run windeployqt --release test.exe, it created all the dependencies and folders. clicked on test.exe run with no problem. grabbed the folder recently created took it to the other computer and go the same error.
Is there something that i have forgotten since i compile my first application? Did i changed some setup somewhere without realizing it?
frustrated...
Perhaps you can check if your problem is related to different versions of the dll existing on your system and the wrong one is being loaded:
QT Release build DLL procedure entry point error
https://forum.qt.io/topic/26707/the-procedure-entry-point-cound-not-be-located-in-the-dynamic-link-library
As is suggested in the latter link above (towards the bottom), you could try to use dependency walker to determine from where the dll is loaded. Or use static linking with the licensing issues that causes (also see the latter link above).
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Cannot Build Xamarin.Forms From Source Code

I have downloaded the Xamarin.Forms solution from GitHub and I am trying to build the solution. Visual Studio does not build, generating more than 70 errors, as simple as the one below:
"The type or namespace name 'IOnClickListener' could not be found (are
you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?"in
Xamarin.Forms.Platform.Android\AppCompat\ButtonRenderer.cs
When I investigate the code, I see that there is really no reference to Android.Views.View in the using statements, so it seems fair.
Am I making a mistake somewhere?
It's not easy to get to the answer without digging into the logs but here are some steps that have helped me in the past.
Android Specific Steps:
Check the logs for any problems that stand out, look at the top most error first and work your way down. Output window -> Show output from Xamarin Diagnostic
If you find unzipping problems you might have to visit the Xamarin folders to delete the zip causing problems and Xamarin will download a new one.
C:\Users{USER}\AppData\Local\Xamarin
If you get loads of Xaml and Resource errors you might have to delete the contents of the file.
Resources\Resource.Designer.cs
After deleting the content(not the file), clean the solution, rebuild the project.
If you still have problems try to either downgrade Xamarin.Forms or upgrade it.
Change Api level to a higher one on the project properties.
Hope one of these helps.

error: Failed to parse qmlimportscanner output

I have a created a fresh QML quick application using Qt 5.3.2 on Mac. When I build it has 2 link errors.
Failed to parse qmlimportscanner output.:-1: error:
[iphonesimulator-debug] Error 66
I have not even made any changes to default application, why do I get these errors and how can I fix it?
I know this question is pretty old, however, as I just encountered the same error and finally managed to solve it: Your Project Path must not contain spaces for qml quick projects on ios.
Please do not ask me how or why this is the case (as it clearly works for desktop or android deployment), but this was the issue for me. After moving the project to a different location (a folder that does not contain spaces) it would run qmake and deploy just fine.

ParseKit framework in Xcode is red, won't build

I'm trying to add ParseKit to a new command line project in Xcode, but the framework shows as red in the Project Navigator. When I try to build, I get this error
error: /Users/acdlite/Xcode/Chemistry Parser/../parsekit-trunk/build/Debug/ParseKit.framework: No such file or directory
I've followed the directions given by the developer in this answer: How to embed ParseKit as a private framework in a Mac App bundle.
To my knowledge, red indicates that the file is not at the specified location. The file inspector says it should be located at /parsekit-trunk/build/Debug/ParseKit.framework, which actually doesn't exist if I try to navigate there in the Finder. So then where is it located? I have no idea.
I've followed all the steps from scratch like a dozen times now, including checking out the code via SVN. It's driving me crazy, and I feel like an idiot. I wish I could be more specific but I am truly lost as to where to go from here.
Alright, after at least 20 attempts I eventually got it working. Mostly, I followed the steps given by the developer in this answer: How to embed ParseKit as a private framework in a Mac App bundle
However, following the steps exactly didn't work. For the life of me, I couldn't get the ParseKit framework to show up as an option when I attempted to add it as a dependency of my Target. Xcode would just say "No filter results found." So I skipped that step. I also did not add a "Copy Files" build phase. Doing so resulted in a dependency error.
This was way harder than it should have been, and I don't know if that's because I'm stupid or Xcode is poorly designed. Probably a combination of both.
By the way, I'm using Xcode version 4.6.1 (4H512).

'Publish failed' but build succeeded?

When using Visual Studio 2008, when I "Publish Web Site", the application builds correctly, but then I get a "Publish failed" message:
What possible reasons are there for this, and how can I prevent it?
I had the same issue. Nightmare to identify the problem, because the logs and outputs show no errors or failures. I simply get "Build: 39 succeeded" and "Publish: 1 failed".
I resolved the problem by systematically removing all NuGet packages one at a time (and removing code that references it) until I identified the offending one.
This takes a LONG time!
However, the answer for me was Microsoft.Net.Compilers.
No idea how I ended up with that in my project, but as soon as I removed that package, everything publishes fine again.
Edit - For what it's worth, this problem occurs on VS 2008, 2012 and 2015 but does not occur on 2017.
You can try this:
Perform precompilation against the web application.
Clear the target directory(virtual directory in IIS or physical file
folder) and deploy all the files (of the web application) into the target
directory.
In the output window you can check at which stage does the publish website
operation fail. For example, at the first stage, if there are some error
which will only occur at precompilation, that will cause the stage 1 fail.
Or some times if the target directory has something configured incorrectly.
Such as the IIS virtual dir is not set to the correct ASP.NET version or
some old files are locked and prevent them from being cleared. Mostly,
publish failed will be caused by IIS side configuration issue such as
authentication setting....
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You can open the output window by pressing Ctrl+W, O.
Sometimes it's because you need to be running VS as Administrator to be able to write to the target directory.
Check the Output messages, they should help you solve the problem
I had to copy project to C:\a\ and than publish. I suspect problems with long path. Strange, but worked for me.
The conclusion is: Try another VS edition and see if that does it.
Here is what did it for me.
I have VS 2013 Pro and Visual Studio 2015 Community. I sort of use one or another to work on my MVC project and all was fine. Then all of the sudden VS 2013 could not publish though it would build just fine. There was no erros other than some silly ...code is not returned from all paths...
So when I open it in VS 2017 - it published the same project just fine. I am suspecting a compiling issue - because that was the stage it would fail at.
Hope that helps you save a bit of time.
Not sure if this happens in different versions of Visual Studio, but at least in 2015 Professional Edition, the problem arises when we try to update all Nuget packages from the solution using the Packages Manager.
As pointed out by #SimonGoldstone the issue is caused by the package "Microsoft.Net.Compilers". By default, the package gets added to the solution while creating a new web application. The default version 1.0.0 does not introduce any problems. I was able to keep testing with latest versions until 2.4.0 and everything works fine, but from 2.6.0 henceforth is when it all starts. If an update is strictly required, I would recommend updating the aforementioned package until version 2.4.0. After doing some research, seems that some bugs on later versions than 2.4.0 are introduced and not fixed on the long term. What is curious though, is how this problem gets included on Nuget with no basic quality control checkpoint.
There are many proposed solutions for this. I think they are overcomplicating the issue.
I found the following worked for me:
Locate the obj(Release or Debug) folder in your solution
Inside the Release or Debug folder delete the CONTENTS of the 'AspnetCompileMerge' folder
Now try and publish.
Make sure you empty the target folder (manually) before publishing. Sometimes vs cant delete a file which will result in a failed publish
After trying a Rebuild, having other Projects in my Solution able to publish correctly, and changing my publish location to the C: drive (locally attached) instead of pushing to a mapped network drive, I was still having an issue where the only error output said:
========== Build: 5 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========
========== Publish: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 skipped ==========
My solution is targeting x86, but I think during a Git Merge, this project had it's profile switched to Any CPU. After creating an x86 profile for the project and having it match the target of the publish goal and of the active solution configuration, I was able to successfully publish again.
Check Project BIn directory. there must be a DLL of your page or control. which has to be recreated during publish. So exclude it or remove it
I ran into this same problem today and it was due to the Thumbs.db file that was created when I opened my images folder to look for an image. I deleted the file and the project deployed successfully. Hope this helps someone else in the same situation.
Delete publish profile and create another one . Worked for me
In my case, I was publishing to a directory in a mapped network drive, but the Output panel/window was indicating that the location didn't exist. The path was correct, and the drive was fully accessible. The problem resolved itself when I re-set the path to publish to in Visual Studio by using the ... button.
With me it was simple - the dist folder was locked. I unlocked it by an unlocker and the publishing resumed.
I have several user controls that are registered in the web.config, and have a ClassName in the .ascx file header. For normal builds everything works fine, but with a publish those class names were not recognized anymore. At some point I found out that the errors were not in my regular code files, but in copies in a temp directory for publishing.
I had "Precompile during publishing" turned on (to be found under Settings > File Publish Options). Turning that option off worked for me.
I had the same issue with VS2017 with a website project. Build worked, but publish gave me an error:
Error CS0012: The type 'System.Net.Http.HttpMessageHandler' is defined in an assembly that is not referenced. You must add a reference to assembly 'System.Net.Http, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'.
All my projects already had a reference to System.Net.Http so it was really confusing.
To fix it, I had to copy System.Net.Http.dll into my website project / bin folder so publish could find it and copy it to my web host. I found System.Net.Http.dll by looking at another project's references (a class library), then System.Net.Http.dll Properties, and seeing the path (C:\Program Files(x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework.NetFramework\v4.6\System.Net.Http.dll).
i know iam late but i think it should use for someone whos searching for this query.
just uninstall all your nuget pakages , then clean and rebuilt solution ,
now click on publish , sure it works and u will see publishing starts and works correctly now
If any one had changed the version of the project file and related framework. then this type of issue happened.
please go to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Professional\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v16.0\Web" location for visual studio published and build setting -> edit -> comment the force copy of all file section.
I had one file that was not found. I had copied in a png file to replace a jpg in the content folder , same name except filetype extension.
Project built fine, but refused to build and publish . changed extension of file so it could find that file name and it worked - no errors amazing 1 thing wrong and everything else is an error.
The case for me was that Visual Studio was not signed in to Azure, but provided no indication of that. I edited the publish profile, clicked "Validate Connection" then clicked "Save" and then it worked.
I was working on a feature branch, which was failing. Switched to Master Branch, deleted the feature one and created another one. It worked.
What caused my issue was a little different, but has similarities to some of the reasons stated above.
I managed to trash my local copy of a given application and did a GIT hard reset to get the most recent from the repository in question. This in turn, wiped out the web.config file (which was not stored in the GIT repository for various reasons).
This cause configuration information for various NuGet packages to be "lost" (since it was stored in web.config).
Fortunately, I had "backed up" the web.config, so once I figured out it was not out there (a migration failed because I was unable to connect to the database), I was able to replace it.
Tried the publish again, after fixing the web.config, and everything worked perfectly.
If you are opting for the "Delete all existing files prior to publish" in the publish web dialog box, then make sure that the Visual Studio is started with Admin rights. Right click the Visual Studio and click Run as Administrator. Hope this helps.

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