Thanks. The Monogame templates appeared after reparing my VS installation.
The Windows DX template has errors that have to be resolved before it will build:
Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Warning NETSDK1137 It is no longer necessary to use the Microsoft.NET.Sdk.WindowsDesktop SDK. Consider changing the Sdk attribute of the root Project element to 'Microsoft.NET.Sdk'. mg381 test2 C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\6.0.302\Sdks\Microsoft.NET.Sdk\targets\Microsoft.NET.Sdk.DefaultItems.targets 147
Error CS0104 'ButtonState' is an ambiguous reference between 'System.Windows.Forms.ButtonState' and 'Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Input.ButtonState' mg381 test2 D:\Code\mg381 test2\Game1.cs 32 N/A
Error CS0104 'Keys' is an ambiguous reference between 'System.Windows.Forms.Keys' and 'Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Input.Keys' mg381 test2 D:\Code\mg381 test2\Game1.cs 32 N/A
Error CS0104 'Color' is an ambiguous reference between 'System.Drawing.Color' and 'Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Color' mg381 test2 D:\Code\mg381 test2\Game1.cs 42 N/A
Just a few things to mention as a JetBrains Rider user transitioning from a 3.8.0 project.
This change made it so my project wouldn’t build, as it went from directly referencing the mgcb dll to the dotnet tool, which I didn’t have installed.
My workaround was to install it via cli:
dotnet tool install -g dotnet-mgcb
Which installed it to my ~/.dotnet/tools directory as mgcb.exe. Unfortunately, this is also not invoked correctly by the build script, because it is intended to be invoked directly, not prefaced by dotnet. See here for why.
To finally fix it I simply renamed the executable dotnet-mgcb.exe so it would be properly run. Not sure why I had to go through these steps, but hopefully this will be a help to any others running into this problem.
Does anyone have a different recommendation for the template. Only the attached one loads for me and I tried repairing installing directly, and from Visual Studio.
We noticed a few hiccups in the release that we’re presently addressing, we’re hoping to release a hotfix soon.
For the time being, if you’re running into issues with either MGCB, the MGCB Editor, or running the templates, please verify those points:
If converting projects, please check this updated migration guide. It is not yet published to the documentation site but will be soon;
If you can’t build the templates, please disable implicit usings by changing this property to false<ImplicitUsings>false</ImplicitUsings>. MonoGame will be updated to remove this feature;
If double-clicking an .mgcb file from Visual Studio with the extension installed freezes Visual Studio, please launch the MGCB Editor through the CLI with dotnet mgcb-editor within your project directory instead. An update to the Visual Studio extension will be published to fix this freeze.
I opened my old 3.8.0 in VS 2022, updated the packages to 3.8.1, set the TargetFramework in the project file for “net6.0” (but had to then set that to “net6.0-windows”, and now I get this build error.
I had recently moved to Ubuntu on my main machine, and using .NET 6 with the latest tools is a must without Visual Studio and Windows. I will make time to try and recompile the client for my game tonight!
I was also very happy to hear that there is a roadmap that is detached from XNA. While contributing isn’t on the table for me, I’d still like to know more.
Thank you @MrValentine my guest is that I am missing something on my Visual Studio install for UWP since those don’t select all versions out of the box. Aside from that everything else is working great.
