Code signing

If you are not a registered Apple developer, but are just using Xamarin and eventually Xcode without yet thinking about going to the store, you won't have the necessary certificates on the OS X side to actually sign the binaries. You will quickly run into compiler errors telling you that your application can't be signed.

This is fairly simple to fix; all we need to do is manually edit the project file:

  1. Unload the iOS project from Solution Explorer:
    Code signing
  2. Right-click on the unloaded project and choose to edit it:
    Code signing
  3. For instance, in the Debug configuration, ...

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