Xamarin/MonoTouch PCL support with Visual Studio

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After installing the Xamarin AddIn for Visual Studio you don't get the MonoTouch or MonoDroid option when creating a Portable Class Library (PCL).  So, in my case I was missing the MonoTouch option as outlined in the screenshot.   To support one or both frameworks you have to add in a couple of Xml files as outlined in Stuart Lodge's (@slodge) post which can be found here.


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