Installation
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.NET
winget install Microsoft.DotNet.SDK.8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y dotnet-sdk-8.0
tba
MonoGame Project Templates
dotnet new install MonoGame.Templates.CSharp
Optional - Workloads
Note that for these workloads to function correctly they need their associated requirements installed before building
dotnet workload install android
dotnet workload install ios
For Android, the easiest way to get the sdk is to install Android Studio.
For Ios, builds need to be run on physical Mac hardware
Editors
Visual Studio 2022 (Windows Only)
Visual Studio 2022 is the minimum required version to build and develop MonoGame with (.NET 6 requirement actually). The 'Community' edition is fine for this unless you are earning over their community license threshold.
Ensure you select the below workloads during installation.
If you did not install .NET 8 sdk previously make sure it's selected in the 'Individual components' tab.
Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code is more than a plain text editor but not quite a full IDE. It does however run on all platforms - WIndows, Linux and MacOs.
code --install-extension ms-dotnettools.csharp
code --install-extension ms-dotnettools.csdevkit
code --install-extension ms-dotnettools.dotnet-maui
Jetbrains Rider
Jetbrains Rider is commercial alternative to Visual Studio with great performance and - like Visual Studio Code - runs on all platforms.