--- title: Introducing Xamarin.Forms Templates | daily.dev description: Introducing Xamarin.Forms Templates, a template pack available for both CLI and Visual Studio Extension. It includes project and item templates for... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-xamarin-forms-templates-5nl9bqgxw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Introducing Xamarin.Forms Templates | daily.dev og:description: Introducing Xamarin.Forms Templates, a template pack available for both CLI and Visual Studio Extension. 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