Today I migrated my Shadow Monsters from MonoGame 3.7.1 to 3.8. I ended up having to create a new user profile to do it. It’s because of a bug in MonoGame 3,8 where if there is a space in the folder name the content builder is in it breaks. I used my full name so there was a space.<\/p>\n
After I had a working profile and could run a test game it was time to migrate. The recommended process is to create a new project then copy over your .csproj files. I ended up going a different route. I decide that because everything was in one project and I wanted to reuse the code in other projects to split the project in two. I created a new project. I added all of the GameStates from the old project to the game and replaced the Game1 class with that. I created a new .NET Library and added the NuGet Packaages for MonoGame.Framework.DesktopGL and MonoGame.Framework.Content.Pipeline because I use the intermediate serializer for some custom content. I then added all of the other .cs files to this project. I added a reference for the library to the project. Then I needed to fix the bugs from splitting the solution but I got it working.<\/p>\n
I have a custom tool that I use for building sprites. I added that project to the solution but when adding a reference for the library Visual Studio complained that .NET 4.7.1 cannot reference .NET Core 3,1, which MonoGame 3.8 is built with. Fortunately there is a workaround that was introduced in Visual Studio 2017. That is a project can target multiple frameworks. This isn’t a perfect solution because there are differences between the different frameworks but I got it to work by targeting Core 3.0 and Standard 2.0.<\/p>\n
That was my adventure for today. I’m happy with the end result and look forward to working with MonoGame 3.8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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