I’m new to Monogame, and I’ve created several classes to deal with physics and collisions. I want to re-use those classes, so is there a way for me to pack them all into a package or DLL for future projects?
Hi Coosis,
In Visual Studio, you can add a new Class Library project to your solution and add your classes to that project.
In the solution explorer, right click on the solution name and select Add > New Project, then look for Class Library. Once you’ve created a new project in your solution, you can add all the classes that you want to reuse.
You’ll have to add a reference to this project though, so in the solution explorer again, under your MonoGame project, right-click on Dependencies and Add Project Reference, then select your class library project.
When you build your solution, the class library project will output a .dll file which you can then reference from other projects or solutions.
Note there is a limitation here as your library project cannot have a reference to your game project since that would create a circular dependency, but you can still have references to MonoGame types.
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Hi NiroSolis,
Thank you so much for the detailed reply. So you are suggesting i create a project for building my own dll. I guess i will have to do it now. I thought there would be an easier way. I would love to follow the steps in Visual Studio, but unfortunately i only use vscode.
For those who use vscode like myself, here’s how you can do the same:
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Open up the terminal, navigate to the path you wish to put the project’s folder in using cd command
(cd C:\Users\username\xxx\yyy)
(or if you are already on C:\Users<username>\xxx you can just do cd yyy) -
type dotnet new classlib -o [desired dll name]
(o is short for output, and to see all the templates available, type dotnet new -l) -
type cd [desired dll name] and you are good to go.
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to output, open the terminal, type dotnet build -o and you will find the dll there.