Creating a Windows Game Library in VS2015 with Monogame

Windows
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Let me begin by stating I a fairly new to Monogame coming from XNA as well as game development. I am using Visual Studio 2015 and have installed the XNA 4.0 Refresh. I have a few XNA books with projects that I want to re-create using Monogame. So far things have been working fine. However I am working on a game project that has me baffled on how to complete it.

The project includes building a tile map engine. In the book the author mentions creating a class library for the tile map engine and using Windows Game Library. I remember seeing this when building XNA games using Visual Studio 2010. However it is missing in Visual Studio 2015. The XNA template included references. I tried re-creating the library using the generic Class Library (C#) and the Portable Class Library(C#). However neither worked for me in the project. I get error messages saying that I have un-referenced assemblies. When I add the references in VS, I get additional errors saying that Texture2D, Rectangles, etc. are referenced in both XNA.framework and in Monogame.framework. If I remove the Monogame.framework reference then I get errors regarding SpriteBatch.

What do I need to do so I can build the class library and have it referenced in the actual game project without XNA and Monogame conflicts?

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Do you have the right using directives? E.g. for my project I have:

using Microsoft.Xna.Framework;
using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics;

And nothing related to MonoGame.

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  1. Create your monogame project as before by selecting “monogame windows project”

  2. Add a standard class library project

  3. Add a reference in your class library to the monogame DLL
    – Might be in path: C:\Program Files (x86)\MonoGame\v3.0\Assemblies\Windows

  4. Add the correct using into each of the class files “class1.cs” etc.

  5. Add reference in your main project to the class library project

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After following your suggestions I got things to work as expected. Thank you all for expanding my knowledge of using Monogame with VS2015.

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Excellent, glad to help.