Monogame Visual Studio 17 For Mac

Support for XNA ended with Windows 7 and Visual Studio 2010. Since a lot of MonoGame projects still depend on the XNA content projects to drive the content pipeline, a functional XNA Game Studio environment is still needed. This makes migrating to later versions of Windows or Visual Studio a pain. Here’s my notes on the process.

This MonoGame tutorial looks at the program lifecycle, how programs are created, how you are supposed to set things up, run the main game loop, then clean things up when finished.

Nothing I’m presenting here is new information; I’m simply collecting it into a single place for convenience. You’ll need to migrate to Windows 8 or later to take advantage of Windows Phone 8 development. Likewise you’ll need to adopt Visual Studio 2012 or later to integrate with the Windows Phone SDK.

Installing XNA Game Studio If you try to install the latest copy of on a fresh system, you’ll be greeted with a compatibility warning from the installer. The installer will also fail. Provides an explanation and solution to the problem. The problem is an incompatibility with the Games for Windows – LIVE Redistributable that XNA Game Studio tries to install and Windows 8. The solution is to install the latest, which is compatible with Windows 8 and will satisfy the XNA Game Studio dependency. Integrating XNA with Visual Studio 2013 StackOverflow provides to this problem as well.

• Copy the XNA Game Studio 4.0 directory from C: Program Files (x86) Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0 Common7 IDE Extensions Microsoft to C: Program Files (x86) Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0 Common7 IDE Extensions Microsoft. • In the newly copied directory, open the file extension.vsixmanifest in a text editor like notepad. Make sure you run the editor with administrator rights. • Update the VisualStudio Version under the SupportedProducts group from 10.0 to 12.0, like so: • You’ll need to let Visual Studio know to look for new extensions. Run the following command from cmd or powershell: 'C: Program Files (x86) Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0 Common7 IDE devenv.exe' /setup. Again, make sure you started cmd or powershell with administrator rights.

• If you’ve installed other XNA templates from Visual Studio Gallery that you’d like to use, see. Integrating MonoGame with Visual Studio 2013 MonoGame has no issues with VS2013 per se. The problem is that the public (at time of writing) is still 3.0.1. This predates VS2013, so project templates aren’t installed. For opening existing projects, this step isn’t necessary.

MonoGame stores project templates in C: Users Documents Visual Studio 20xx Templates ProjectTemplates Visual C# MonoGame. Each project template is a standard zip file with a bunch of project files and a.vstemplate template file. Using seagate backup plus for mac on windows.

• If you have VS2010 installed on your system, then you can copy the MonoGame templates from the 2010 directory into the 2013 directory. • If you have VS2012 installed, you can copy the MonoGame templates from the 2012 directory into the 2013 directory, but with one major caveat: • You will need to go into each of the 2012 templates and edit the __Game.vstemplate or __XamlGame.vstemplate file. There’s an directive near the bottom of these config files that references Version=11.0.0.0 of the Microsoft.VisualStudio.SmartDevice.ProjectSystem.Base assembly.