MonoGame and VSCode Development Environment Setup (2024)

A quick video on setting up your development environment to build games using MonoGame and VSCode instead of the full Visual Studio IDE
#monogame #vscode #gamedev
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dotnet SDK Download dotnet.microso...
VSCode Download: code.visualstu...
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[@NotSharpisnext]

Thank you soo much! I have been looking for a tutorial for this for many days.

[@hxploit]

Thank you man. this helped a lot.

[@Benox-Dev]

thank you soooo much

[@computersciencestudentriverbat]

Came here from the Monogame Discord. Great stuff.

[@aristurtledev]

Thanks

[@Rafloka]

Great work, thank you very much!

[@kordass2519]

Thank you man very much

[@f4rrusco]

Thanks. Very helpful.

[@KayhenHD]

Thank you for this video!!

[@CraftiroIL]

Thank you so much! Great help

[@beziic]

Yes Thanks

[@CaptainBlackJackVR]

Thank you bro

[@NgocNhiemNguyen-si9fv]

Thank you so much!

[@Blorbsnorg]

My terminal isn't working like that, it only gives me errors if I include any spaces, can anyone help?

[@isdogru]

Is there any point trying to run the monogame content builder on a mac M1? Trying to get some doc or tutorial of some kind and its kind of dead! Besides the fact that mgcb is not ready for M1 with .NET8

[@aristurtledev]

It's a hassle for sure on an M1/M2, and even with current known workarounds in the community they don't resolve 100% of the issue.
I can't say for sure when 3.8.2 is gonna drop, but I and others are doing work to resolve the M1/M2 issues for mgcb on Mac. You can follow this issue to stay up to date github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame/issues/8124

[@Adamthegeek70]

I am used to full version of Visual Stupid, does VS Code have nuget?

[@aristurtledev]

It doesn't have a NuGet Manager window like Visual Studio has. Instead you use the cli to add packages.
Just open a terminal/command prompt in the directory that your .csproj is in and use the command
dotnet add package NameOfPackage
and it will add the NuGet Package

[@arshiyakhebredast9895]

thank you for this tutorial but i have a problem:
whenever i try to add the project to my sln file it just gives me an error that says: Could not find project or directory
and I checked many times that the path is correct and i am sure it is. hell I even restarted the project many times but it just gives the same error. I dont know what to do tbh. would appreciate the help.

[@aristurtledev]

Hi, if you could join the MonoGame discord I could probably assist better up there.
discord.gg/monogame

[@_mrgrak]

Turt!

[@aristurtledev]

Grak!

[@LinearAnimatrix3253]

Super helpful thanks