I have just installed the MonoGame extension for Visual Studio Community 2019 and the MGCB Editor, like I read on the website. I wanted to start practicing with an openGL project(Cross Platform Desktop Project), as I’m new to MonoGame, but something went wrong?
I tried looking in the MSBuild folder, but to my surprise, the folder specified in the error prompt is missing. Have I forgotten to do something?
P.S: I’m using Win10 Home and I wanted to start with a project template.
I have same problem someone pls help
Why do I smell this being a path issue…
Update, my team mate made a Mono project and uploaded it on GitHub and I was able to get a clone from there and work like this, but the issue isn’t solved.
The paths are supposed to be defined in another .xml file, as it shows now. I have checked devenv.exe.config, however there is no Import declaration. Something might have happened when I installed the MonoGame nuget? Anyways, I’ll give it some of my time now that I finished working only on the old project and find out what messed the paths. Meanwhile, @R_S if you found something helpful, I’d appreciate if you could share!
Your path to csproj has spaces. Or, your username has spaces. Or, you’re using pre-3.8 project with 3.8 nugets.
I am having the same problem with clean installations of VS2019 on 2 different PC’s. My main dev PC (and another) both progressively upgraded from previous MonoGame versions are fine (can create new MG projects and open old ones).
Clean install of VS2019 (16.11.2) with .NET desktop dev component (all I have on functioning PC’s)
Followed https://docs.monogame.net/articles/getting_started/1_setting_up_your_development_environment_windows.html guide:
Installed templates - Extensions → Manage Extensions → MonoGame project templates
Installed and registered MGCB Editor
OS: Win 10 64-bit Home
On trying to create a new MonoGame project using ‘MonoGame Windows Project’ template, on hitting the ‘Create’ button I get the following error:
Getting similar on trying to open a 3.8 project (built and running fine on main dev PC) with the MonoGame project not loading (this also happens with a virgin ‘MonoGame Windows Project’ made on the good PC):
With the error message:
C:\TEST\FishORama21\FishORamaEngineLibrary\FishORamaEngineLibrary.csproj : error : The imported project “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\MonoGame\v3.0\MonoGame.Content.Builder.targets” was not found. Also, tried to find “MonoGame\v3.0\MonoGame.Content.Builder.targets” in the fallback search path(s) for $(MSBuildExtensionsPath) - “C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild” . These search paths are defined in “C:\Users\chris\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\16.0_8477f579\devenv.exe.config”. Confirm that the path in the declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk in one of the search paths. C:\TEST\FishORama21\FishORamaEngineLibrary\FishORamaEngineLibrary.csproj
I have tried multiple reinstallations and additional VS components and cant for the life of me see the difference between my working installations and the problematics ones.
I need to find a clear solution to this as I have to get students to install and setup VS2019 to be able to run and work in a MG3.8 project I will be distributing to them, and if a fresh VS2019 install and following the guide above creates problems I need to have a fix / specific guidance for them.
Appreciate any assistance
That picture shows you have a Dependency issue, fix that and see if you still get the same results.