I heard that MonoGame is a replacement for XNA but i do not know how to open the desktop project.
Specifically, what workload should I install to be able to develop MonoGame projects on Windows?
MonoGame v3.7.1 doesn't officially support Visual Studio 2019 but that's only because it doesn't install the Visual Studio Project Templates in the right place.
There are number of workarounds to this issue including this one by uranusexplorer:
I could not find templates for VS 2017 anywhere, so I had to install VS 2017 to get them. Leaving them here until there is support for Visual Studio 2019 in the official MonoGame installer.
Download MonoGame Visual Studio Templates
Unzip to Documents\Visual Studio 2019\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#
Funnily enough, I actually created a MonoGame Hello World project on github recently for this exact reason. If you just want to get started you can download that project and open it in Visual Studio 2019.
Alternatively you can create a MonoGame .NET Core project which will also work in Visual Studio 2019.
MonoGame is not installed with Visual Studio (neither was XNA, btw). You need to install it separately. The process is well described in their documentation: http://www.monogame.net/documentation/?page=Setting_Up_MonoGame
I started using the Prism Template Studio with Visual Studio for Mac version 7.x a few days ago. Today Visual Studio updated and I no longer have access to the handy Prism extensions.
I've tried opening the Extensions Manager and going to the Gallery tab to re-install the Template Studio, but when I search for Prism, nothing shows up.
I expected to find the Prism Template Studio listed. Is there a version that supports Visual Studio for Mac 8.0 or is there plan to add support?
TIA
I'm using Visual Studio Community Edition 2015 with Unity. The UnityVS plugin is installed. The editor configured in Unity is Visual Studio 2015.
When I open a file in Unity it opens a new Visual Studio instance. I have tried via Asset -> Open C# project, double click file, click on Open button, etc.
How do I configure Unity (or Visual Studio) to keep a single instance?
You no londer need UnityVS for the latest Unity version. I can't remember which version UnityVS is no longer requred but I will suggest you try the following below.
Uninstall Visual Studio
Uninstall Unity
Restart Computer.
Install the latest Unity version from here.
Visual Studio should automatically install too. Make sure it is selected during Unity installation.
Don't install UnityVS or anyother plugin. It should work out of the box.
I have Xamarin installed on the Visual Studio 2013 on Windows Operating System. It works fine.
There is Xamarin tools in VS2013 as follows:
My problem is as follows:
I have recently installed Visual Studio 2015 on my desktop on Windows operating system. I thought when I opened the VS2015, I expected to see the Xamarin in it, but it does not. Then I installed the Xamarin again, and again and again, but still Xamarin does not show up in VS2015.
I wonder what is wrong? What am I missing?
By the way, I still have VS2013 on my desktop.
No Xamarin tools in VS 2015 as follows:
I even tried the following approach, still no luck.
Control Panel -> Programs -> Programs and Features Choose Xamarin
Click Change -> Next -> Click the desired drop down for each items in the tree view and select "Will be installed on local hard drive."
Click Next
I am even getting the following screen when installation is completed, but still I could not able to see Xamarin in VS2015.
I have installed Xamarin in my Visual Studio 2015 two days ago and it showing Xamarin under Tools. Below I have described the approach which I have followed to install Xamarin in Visual Studio 2015.
Go to Contol Panel >> Program Features >> Visual Studio
2015 >> Change>> Modify
1. Select C#/.Net(Xamarin) under Cross Platform Mobile Development
2. Check if these three red marked items are checked or not.
3. And then press update.It will download all the required packages to run Xamarin on VS 2015.Hope it helps you!!
I recently had horrendous problems trying to install Xamarin on VS2015 + Win10. (I don't have any other VS versions installed.) Even a full install and reinstall left huge holes in the installation. I tried repeatedly and each time the whole dev environment seemed to get itself in a different unusable state.
The fix for me, which is probably hitting a nut with a sledgehammer, was to:
Uninstall Xamarin (via Control Panel|Uninstall).
Uninstall Visual Studio (via Control Panel|Uninstall).
Follow Xamarin's manual uninstallation procedures Full Xamarin Uninstall.
Perform full reinstall of Visual Studio, being sure to tick the boxes shown in the answer by Parth Patel above.
This resulted in a faultless, fully functioning Xamarin environment for me. Overkill, maybe, but worth a go if all else fails.
Here is the solution:
I have deleted all the existing versions of visual studio ( 2010, 2012, 2013) except Visual Studio 2015 and then installed the Xamarin, and then I could able to see Xamarin on Visual Studio 2015.
It is not required to delete previous versions of VS. I have Xamarin Studio, VS 2013 and now VS 2015 and working perfectly. I moved to VS 2015 due to recent purchase of Xamarin by MS and that VS 2015 has Xamarin included.
I believe the issue with this question is was that your VS 2015 install did not include the add ins as pointed out in another answer in this question.
After the VS 2015 install -the only caveat was projects created initially in Xaramin Studio and then Opened in VS 2015 to needed to have the build configuration in the project tweaked. If not you could not get the project to build and then be deployed to an emulator or device for debug testing.
We have a few troubleshooting steps on our Knowledge Base that you can find here:
https://kb.xamarin.com/customer/en/portal/articles/1643349-missing-visual-studio-extensions-after-installation
Note: Some of these steps have older versions listed in the respective paths. You should use the latest version number available.
Before any install or uninstall actions. Try open some sample Xamarin project, in most cases during opening project in VS 15, it will show you, what needs to be installed or what is missing / corrupted.
Xamarin samples
I had some problems with my emulator best way to fix the problems is to uninstall everything (emulators, android sdk, vs, xamarin) and reinstall it.
It is also important to delete other or older versions of visual studio. Then you should probably see you options.
First try to uninstall all the other versions of Visual Studio (VS) 2013 in this case. Then try to reinstall Xamarin.
Visual Studio 2015 is little bit different from 2013 version, I am also using xamarin on visual studio 2015. But that is not listed under tools menu like 2013.
Maybe developers had changed that, you can go to "start a new project"(just like you start new app development), there you can find xamarin/android projects list, there you can start new android projects.
This is strange, I did not have any problem with Xamarin & VS 2015 (community).
You said,
I will see the Xamarin in it
Did you try to create a project or/and add your account in the new VS Installation ?
I install both Visual Studio 2013 and 2015. I need install Xamarin for VS 2015. But I can't do it because by default it's installing for VS 2013.
I think the link below may assist you:
first, uninstall everything related to xamarin.
second, open vs2015 and create new andriod project
third, when project is created you'll see instructions to downloading xamarin.
Download the xamarin installer for vs2015, install it, after installation - open vs2015 and see the newly added projects.
http://www.infragistics.com/community/blogs/blagunas/archive/2014/11/14/installing-xamarin-for-visual-studio-2015-preview-side-by-side-with-visual-studio-2013.aspx