How can i install MonoGame into Visual Studio 2013?

Question

How can I install MonoGame templates for Visual Studio 2013?

Answer 1

Assuming you want C# templates:

• Install MonoGame from here

• Find the Visual Studio templates folder (usually C:\Users[your user name]\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#)

• Copy the MonoGame folder to the Visual Studio 2013\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C# folder.

Answer 2

UPDATED 7 January 2014

For people who want to use Monogame can download the 3.2 which provide the support for 2013.

The installer are available at http://build.monogame.net/job/develop-win/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/Installers/Windows/

If you try this way you don't need to do any kind of copy-paste for project templates.

UPDATED 9 January 14

3.2 build have some trouble now. Check the very common issue here http://monogame.codeplex.com/discussions/467277

Answer 3

The Paul McCowat's answer is correct.

Also, if you doesn't have visual studio 2012 in your machine, just create the folders hierarchy as he said. (C:\Users[your user name]\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#) Then the Monogame installer can find the folder to copy the templates.

Update: I don't have visual studio 2012 installed in my machine, so I had some problems to resolve in this way.

I edited some files on every template I wanted to use, searching for references of DLLs of visual studio 2012, then i changed the versions of these DLLs from 11 to 12.

Now it works!