Just an update for anyone else - I was reading the thread on GitHub for (Add support for Visual Studio 2017 templates)
And read something about the project templates - since I already have monogame 3.5 installed on the PC and use VS2015, I thought I would try copying the templates from the VS 2015 folder to the VS2017 folder: e.g.
C:\Users[username]\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#\MonoGame
Voila - the templates showed in the “Add New Project” window, I’ve managed to open up a sample monogame desktop app and it worked… So this is use full for existing installations - but as mentioned I think the issue will be on new machines.
VS 2017 is out next week and I’m installing it on a new laptop I’m getting, does anyone know if the 3.6 download (which I’ve just noticed is out now) will work install the project templates onto VS 2017? When I installed 2017 RC I had monogame working with VS 2015 on the PC and just copied the templates, but this is going to be a NEW laptop with no other VS install.
Unfortunately no However a fix was merged in the develop branch and the plan is to soon (no date yet) release a 3.6.1 version with critical fixes that will include the VS2017 templates fix. Related PR: https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame/pull/5546
I’ll install it anyway and try and copy over the project templates from my desktop version to see if I can get it working. Was only asking out of curiosity,