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nilllzz
nilllzz

Reputation: 205

MonoGame templates in Visual Studio 2015

I just installed Visual Studio 2015 and now want to start a new MonoGame project (C#, Windows DX). I got MonoGame installed, as well as XNA.

The problem is that the templates are not showing up in the New Project dialogue.

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On Visual Studio 2013, they showed up here, they are also nowhere to be found aynwhere else in the Project tree.

So I searched for the templates, they exist in the location where they should be:

C:\Users\<user>\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#\MonoGame

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I tried running the devenv.exe /installvstemplates from the Visual Studio admin console, as well as devenv.exe /setup, for good measure. After doing both several times, mixed with a few Visual Studio 2015 and Windows restarts, the project templates are still not showing up.

I also tried to clear the cache by deleting C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio and C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0, to no avail.

The MonoGame installer was customized to work with Visual Studio 2015, so I assume it should work somehow.

So, can anyone help me getting those project templates set up?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 6413

Answers (2)

KNenad
KNenad

Reputation: 21

In case you work as standard user and run MonoGame setup as admin, MonoGane templates was installed only in Administrator account.

So I just make copy into my user \ProjectTemplates\Visual C#.

MonoGame Setup installation:

C:\Users\**Admin**\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#

Correct folder is under my user account:

C:\Users\**user**\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#

Then as answered above just run devenv.exe /installvstemplates from Developer Command Prompt for VS2015.

Upvotes: 2

nilllzz
nilllzz

Reputation: 205

I found out why it wasn't working:

Apparently, the MonoGame installer puts the Templates in the wrong folder for Visual Studio 2015.

The correct folder for VS2015 is

C:\Users\user\Documents\Visual Studio 14\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#

The MonoGame installer installs to C:\Users\user\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#

So, when the folder MonoGame inside that folder gets moved to the first one, and the devenv.exe /installvstemplates command gets executed, the templates show up.

Upvotes: 7

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