Cant get the Monogame templates installed

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Hello Guys
I’ve tryed almost everything to get Monogame installer working for me but it still doesnt. I get the error that all of the available visual Studio templates are grayed out. I’ve checked my Template Folder Location but everything is fine. I run the Setup as Administrator but that doesnt help. Im trying it since 1 hour but it seems impossible to get this done.
Thanks for your help!

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@Jjagg this is getting silly now

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Is there any way we can sticky a single topic on this matter and avoid a new post about it every 3.5 days?

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@MrValentine
The problem is that I’ve already tried everything written in other posts but the installer is still not doing what he’s supposed to

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I know, but can you detail your system exactly? have you checked write permissions etc.?

This issue comes up every other day since over a year now…

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So I’m using Windows 10 and the Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise Edition. I have installed the .Net Desktop Developmnet tools and the current version of Visual Studio I’m using is the newest. I already tried to reinstall Visual Studio but after that same error. The Monogame installer is the newest 3.7 version linked on the website. The path the templates are located is
C:\Users\MyName\Documents\Visual Studio 2017\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#. If you need to know something more please just reply. I’m sitting here since 3 Hours straight up and its still not working.

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Is the enterprise edition supported? can you try installing Community edition and see if that works, then just copy over the files…

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Also try using the 3.6 release and see if it really is an issue with the installers

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@MrValentine I had the Community Edition installed before and already tried the 3.6 installer. Both did not work

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You can always set up the project manually, the only remarkable thing the templates do is run the pipeline tool as a build-step … which can sometimes go nuts and send you into infinite build cycles until reboot in VS2017.

Sort of silly that it’s become harder to build C# than C++ code these days, even without using Fody to cut down on C# boiler-plate hell.

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@AcidFaucent How can I setup the project manually? Do you mean I have to do download just the Monogame Core components in the installer and then download the vs templates on the github site?

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No, I mean you can go through Nuget or you can manually add the references and prebuild tasks. The VS templates don’t do anything magical except on Xamarin based targets which are a hassle to setup manually.