There are lots of differences between using a Standard Class/Portable Class Library (PCL) and Shared projects in a Xamarin solution. However, the most obvious one appears when you open any XAML file ...
Before starting your Xamarin project, I recommend installing some version of Visual Studio 2017 -- it has the best support for Xamarin. For this article I'm using Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise Edition ...
One of our lead developers recently shared a list of some of the most helpful, free Visual Studio add-ins, and we thought you might find it useful. They are as follows (in no particular order) : This ...