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Howto: get Visual Studio to publish your Xamarin project to the AppStore
How To Fix The “We Are Unable To Create An Authentication Session” error when publishing your Xamarin iOS project
5 min readApr 24, 2020
In this post you’ll learn to fix the “We are unable to create an authentication session” error, and how to get Visual Studio for Mac to publish to the Apple AppStore properly.
A little background info on Xamarin
The Xamarin framework and toolset has been around for many years now.
It was created as a Mono-based framework, which means that it was based on an open-source .Net framework. This was back in 2011, long before .Net itself went open-source on 12 November 2014.
Xamarin didn’t just build a framework, they also created their custom IDE, called Xamarin Studio.
Because it focussed on building Xamarin projects, it had many developers create and ship Xamarin projects over the following years.
