[Xamarin Forms] build error: Unable to cast object of type 'Xamarin.Forms.Xaml.ElementNode' to type 'Xamarin.Forms.Xaml.ValueNode'

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Xaml build error

For one of my Xamarin project, I just had this build error:
This error was related to my XAML code:

Unable to cast object of type 'Xamarin.Forms.Xaml.ElementNode' to type 'Xamarin.Forms.Xaml.ValueNode'

After searching for a long 'moment', I just didn't understand what happened...



My investigation (this process can help you :p)

So I decided to remove a large part of my xaml code and then re-add it little by little. Each step I tried to compile to see when error occurs.

So In my case, I determined that the piece of code that was going wrong was the following:



Ok, it was my mistake but in the code editor, Visual Studio didn't tell me anything.
I was trying to bind an event (I though it was a property) to a DateTime property... What is not possible.

Hope this helps someone to save a few minutes :)

Comments

  1. Ray of LightApril 4, 2018 at 2:42 PM

    This did help me with a similar error with a ListView. I was binding to ItemSelected instead of SelectedItem.
    Thanks for this!

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    1. DjooleeanApril 5, 2018 at 12:09 AM

      Glad it helped you ! I hope you didn't lose to much time with this :p

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  2. AnonymousJune 3, 2018 at 9:10 AM

    Thanks for this. This helped me to figure out my bug as well.

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  3. RJJune 14, 2018 at 12:01 AM

    I got the same error and I saw this. It worked! thanks a lot! :P

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  4. UnknownJuly 19, 2018 at 11:26 AM

    Thanks for this!

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  5. UnknownMarch 10, 2019 at 1:46 PM

    You just saved me a bunch of time. I don't know how to thank you!

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