sfPicker fails in UWP only

[John]

Hi, I have successfully implemented the sfPicker in Xamarin Forms for my IOS and Android projects and it works perfectly. 

However for UWP, the page it is on will not render at all when it appears - blank white screen.

I have followed the instructions at https://help.syncfusion.com/xamarin/picker/gettingstarted for UWP, also tried the Release Mode fix in case that would help, but for both release and debug I have this problem. 

I am wondering if there is some sort of simple solution that others may have come across for this problem.

I'm using the community edition, and VS2017 Community. 

I use UWP for the convenience,  I don't release the UWP app to anyone, but it's really nice to use for general debugging and I'd hope there is a solution.

Thanks for any ideas,

John

[Ruba Shanmugam]

Hi John,

Greetings from Syncfusion.

We have checked the reported issue “SfPicker is not rendering on UWP” and found that the reported issue reproduced only on Xamarin.Forms version 4.5 and works fine on Xamarin.Forms version 4.4 and below.
 

Please find the tested sample from below link.

Sample: https://www.syncfusion.com/downloads/support/directtrac/general/ze/Picker_GettingStarted-429930435  

Could you please share which Xamarin.Forms version that you are using in your application? This will be helpful for us to investigate further and provide better solution at earliest.

Regards,
Ruba Shanmugam 

[John]

Thank you for your quick reply. 

I am not completely sure but from the Help-About in VS it may say I have Xamarin 4.12.3.83.  Details below.

Also, the link you supplied points to a zip file that may be corrupted, I cannot open it. 

Again, I appreciate you help with this.

-John

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[John]

OK, an update.  While I was unable to use the zip you pointed me to, I was able to build and run the one from https://help.syncfusion.com/xamarin/picker/gettingstarted

and it worked fine in UWP.  This is making me suspect if the problem is in my own code, at least the UWP part of it.

I will continue to investigate to see why my own program is not working with UWP.

So until then, you might want to hold off unless you are aware of an issue.

Thanks again

John

[John]

OK - it looks like the difference between your working program and my failing one is the way the itemsource binding is set up.  I was setting up theitemsource in code while yours was in the XAML.  While I havent got my items to display yet (I will), I know how (I think) and it looks like this is completely my problem, not yours.

Thanks so much for your time and attention.  You can consider this as a non-problem.

-John

[Sakthivel Palaniyappan]

Hi John,

Thanks for the update and we are glad to know that issue has been resolved. Please get back us, if you need any further assistance on this.

Regards,
Sakthivel P.