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 DevExpress. 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 has a 30 day free trial license, but after that you will need to purchase one to continue using it. It is worth trying to see how it compares it VSCode.
*Hint - or visit a nearby .NET user group, who often have JetBrains licenses available as giveaways, as they are very a generous and supportive company.
Setting up Rider for development with MonoGame
Open up terminal (or Powershell on Windows)
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.
Open up Rider
Click on the "New Solution" button
Select "MonoGame Cross-Platform Desktop Application" on the list on the left
Press "Create"
You can now press
F5
to compile and debug you game, happy coding :)
Next Steps
Next, get to know MonoGame's code structure and project layout: