Where to get MonoTools for Visual Studio 2010/2012 plug-in. No luck with their web site as it is down
Solution 1
You can easily modify the MonoTools installer to work with VS2012. .vsix
files are ZIP files. In the root of the zip, you'll see a file named extension.vsixmanifest
, which lists the versions of Visual Studio that are supported by the extension.
Basically,
- Download the MonoTools package
- Rename it to have a
.zip
extension - Right-click and select "open" - you don't want to extract the file, just open the archive using the built-in Windows mechanism
- Copy
extension.vsixmanifest
anywhere - say, to your desktop. - Open it up in a text editor (I love Notepad++, EMACS is also pretty awesome under OSX.)
- Change the
SupportedProducts
key to the following:
<SupportedProducts> <VisualStudio Version="10.0"> <Edition>VSTS</Edition> <Edition>VSTD</Edition> <Edition>Pro</Edition> </VisualStudio> <VisualStudio Version="11.0"> <Edition>VSTS</Edition> <Edition>VSTD</Edition> <Edition>Pro</Edition> </VisualStudio> </SupportedProducts>
- Copy the modified file back into the archive.
- Rename it from
.zip
to.vsix
- Run it. The Visual Studio Version Selector should appear and let you pick VS2012.
If the Mono
menu item doesn't appear after restarting VS, you may need to run
devenv /setup
from a VS command prompt (or, from c:\program files (x86)\microsoft visual studio 11\common7\ide).
This works for just about any VS2010 extension.
Solution 2
That was a former product from Novell, and it is no longer offered or developed.
Xamarin doesn't offer it either.
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Updated on June 14, 2022Comments
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I have been trying to get the MonoTools for Visual Studio from their web site (mono-tools.com). But with no luck. Where to get MonoTools for Visual Studio 2010/2012 plug-in?
Aditya.