Setting up your development environment for Rider

A step-by-step guide for setting up your development IDE for Rider

This is a guide on setting up your development environment for creating games with MonoGame using Rider by JetBrains. By following this guide, you will learn how to install the tools for developing C# applications and configure Rider with recommended extensions for C# development.

By the end, you will be fully equipped to start creating games with MonoGame using Rider.

Install Rider

You can download and install Rider from: https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/download

Note

Rider is free for personal use, you do have to register and create an account, but otherwise all features will be unlocked.

Setting up Rider for development with MonoGame

1. Open up terminal (or Powershell on Windows)

2. Run the following command to install templates:

   dotnet new install MonoGame.Templates.CSharp
   

Creating a new MonoGame project

To get you started with Rider, here are the steps for setting up a new Rider MonoGame project.

1. Open up Rider

2. Click on the "New Solution" button

   

3. Select "MonoGame Cross-Platform Desktop Application" on the list on the left

   

4. Press "Create"

5. You can now press F5 to compile and debug your game, happy coding :)

Next Steps

Next, get to know MonoGame's code structure and project layout:

• Understanding the code