Issue with SetContentView()

Issue

I’ve been following this tutorial for Xamarin to make an android application and for some reason the compiler gives this error

Error   CS1061  'Resources' does not contain a definition for 'layout' and no accessible extension method 'layout' accepting a first argument of type 'Resources' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)  XamarinHelloWorld

with this code

using Android.App;
using Android.Content;
using Android.Runtime;
using Android.Views;
using Android.Widget;
using Android.OS;

namespace HelloWorld
{
    public class MainActivity : Activity
    {
        protected override void OnCreate (Bundle bundle)
        {
            base.OnCreate(bundle);
            SetContentView(Resources.layout.main);
        }
    }
} 

Yet there is a layout folder in Resources

Solution

I believe you have a typo in your code.

Instead of :

namespace HelloWorld
{
public class MainActivity : Activity
{
    protected override void OnCreate (Bundle bundle)
    {
        base.OnCreate(bundle);
        SetContentView(**Resources**.layout.main);
    }
  }
} 

It should be:

namespace HelloWorld
{
public class MainActivity : Activity
{
    protected override void OnCreate (Bundle bundle)
    {
        base.OnCreate(bundle);
        SetContentView(**Resource**.layout.main);
    }
  }
} 

Answered By – tomerpacific