How can i install MonoGame into Visual Studio 2013?

Question

How can I install MonoGame templates for Visual Studio 2013?

Solution 1

Assuming you want C# templates:

• Install MonoGame from here

• Find the Visual Studio templates folder (usually C:\Users[your user name]\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#)

• Copy the MonoGame folder to the Visual Studio 2013\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C# folder.

Solution 2

UPDATED 7 January 2014

For people who want to use Monogame can download the 3.2 which provide the support for 2013.

The installer are available at http://build.monogame.net/job/develop-win/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/Installers/Windows/

If you try this way you don't need to do any kind of copy-paste for project templates.

UPDATED 9 January 14

3.2 build have some trouble now. Check the very common issue here http://monogame.codeplex.com/discussions/467277

Solution 3

The Paul McCowat's answer is correct.

Also, if you doesn't have visual studio 2012 in your machine, just create the folders hierarchy as he said. (C:\Users[your user name]\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#) Then the Monogame installer can find the folder to copy the templates.

Update: I don't have visual studio 2012 installed in my machine, so I had some problems to resolve in this way.

I edited some files on every template I wanted to use, searching for references of DLLs of visual studio 2012, then i changed the versions of these DLLs from 11 to 12.

Now it works!

Comments

[MasterMastic]

Why in the world was this down-voted?

[me--]

Also, I needed to extract the templates and edit the .vstemplate file so that it refers to version 12 of Microsoft.VisualStudio.WinRT.TemplateWizards rather than 11. Then zip it back up and replace the original template zip with the modified version.

[Cyral]

Was just trying to install MonoGame today again and I saw this post posted today, nice timing! EDIT: That was a quick install! I had used some complicated guides before... +1 for the help :)

[Zéiksz]

You may also want to read this about editing the template: monogame.codeplex.com/workitem/7482