MonoGame templates are missing in VS 2019 for Mac

Mac OS X
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How can I create a new MonoGame project in VS 2019 for Mac? I have installed MonoGame 3.7.1 for MacOS but the templates are missing in Visual Studio.

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At the moment there are none for 2019. You can try downloading 2017, there should be some templates when you install the monogame extension.

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Impossible to get Monogame to work on the Mac then if you havent got 2017 version. Iā€™ve dug around and even gone so far as to get the Free Microsoft Developer subscription as I has hoping that maybe the 2017 version of VS for Mac was hidden behind a subscription wall.

Nope, only 2019 is offered as a download.

Does anyone know where we/I could get the 2017 version please?

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For Mac?

VS Code I thinkā€¦

EDIT

Also @johncogan1972 , Hi and welcome to the forums, Happy Coding!

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Here, you can download VS for Mac 2017

Only try to no update this version because will convert in VS for mac 2019

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@gidrekgames The download link for that takes me to a MS page that has no results with message ā€œWe didnā€™t find results for ā€œVisual Studio 2017 for Macā€ā€

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@johncogan1972 weird! Because one week ago I installed from that page :frowning:

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Iā€™ve found a link:

https://dl.xamarin.com/VsMac/VisualStudioForMac-7.8.4.1.dmg

If you want another version, you can replace the version number in the link https://dl.xamarin.com/VsMac/VisualStudioForMac-VERSION.dmg

You can find available version numbers here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releasenotes/vs2017-mac-relnotes.

But it still doesnā€™t work, I get this:

Here what I did:

  • Followed instructions on install page, except for visual studio, Iā€™ve installed Visual Studio 2017 (https://dl.xamarin.com/VsMac/VisualStudioForMac-7.8.4.1.dmg)
  • Installed Dev version of MonoGame (not v_x.x)
  • ā€œVisual Studioā€ -> ā€œExtensionsā€¦ā€ -> ā€œGaleryā€, find and install ā€œMonoGame Extensionā€

Can someone help me?
Is there a documentation to setup everything without the templates?
Is there a better IDE to work with monogame?
It is sad to be stuck before the end of the ā€œintroductionā€ section of the documentation while Iā€™ve just followed exactly what it is written.

Also, what could we do to make Monogame work with the only version of ā€œVisual Studio for Macā€ Microsoft provide (2019)?

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Iā€™ve managed to make it work by changing all occurences of Any CPU to AnyCPU in the .csproj file.

Also Iā€™ve found this related issue: https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame/issues/6695

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You can use Jetbrains Rider instead. Templates works well on rider.