

After Visual Studio is closed, the updates downloaded above will be installed. When the downloads have completed, a restart of Visual Studio is required to install the updates.

To receive updates (if available), go to the Updates tab, and press Update for each item to download all available updates. The Xamarin Updater will automatically push updates via the Extensions and Updates window. With the updater installed, this is will provide you preview updates on the preview channel of Visual Studio. The extension will be marked as “Created by: Xamarin”. Search for Xamarin Updater and press Download.Navigate to Online -> Visual Studio Marketplace.Currently, the updater requires the Preview 15.3 release and will only provide preview updates on preview installations. Visual Studio 2017 provides two channels: Stable and Preview. To enable our developers to receive updates outside of the Visual Studio release cadence, we are introducing the Xamarin Updater extension for Visual Studio 2017, which allows you to receive updates to Xamarin for Visual Studio out-of-band, such as updates to the Xamarin Live Player or support for new versions of Xcode. Traditionally, Xamarin developers have used our updater channels to stay up-to-date with frequent Xamarin releases, previews, and updates.
