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Install Monogame on Visual Studio 2017

I am trying to install Monogame on VS 2017 however the option on the installer for VS 2017 is greyed out, even though I have VS 2017 installed. I also have VS 2015 and VS 2010 however I am not sure if it is those that are causing a problem. The version of MonoGame is 3.6.0.1625 and I currently have the directory: C:\Users\MY NAME\Documents\Visual Studio 2017\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#
Please help thanks

If anyone have this problem and is trying to install on non Admin account then just copy over whole Visual Studio 2017\Templates structure from your Documents to Administrator's Documents. (or the account with admin right you use in UAC prompt to install)
That solved it for me :)

This problem often happens when your templates are in the wrong directory.
The path you provided seems to be the right one tho.
Are your VS2015 templates in the C:\Users\MY NAME\Documents\ directory aswell ?
If not, try to move your VS2017 templates to the same directory as your VS2015 templates.
If those two are both in C:\Users\MY NAME\Documents\, look into Documents\Visual Studio 2017\Templates\ProjectTemplates and try to find the Visual C# folder. If it is missing add a new folder with this name and try again.

OK, simple answer is, that until MonoGame 3.7 drops, you are going to need to download the latest MonoGame Development build from the download page. This is fine as the dev build is still very stable and based off the current MASTER version of MonoGame from source.
I did a short Video on my "Darkside of MonoGame" channel a while back which walks you through everything you need to know to get up and running using VS017. (there is even a version there for VS2015 :D)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zphaylhOrm0
Hope this helps.

I was having this same issue. Uninstalling MonoGame then Visual Studio, and reinstalling Visual Studio then MonoGame worked for me.

Publishing Visual Studio 2017 multi-project VSIX to the marketplace

I'm trying to port my Extended Visio Template visual studio extension (multi-project template with custom wizard) to Visual Studio 2017.
I followed the steps for migrating extension, as clarified in the documentation:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/extensibility/how-to-migrate-extensibility-projects-to-visual-studio-2017
It builds and installs/works locally fine ("works on my machine") but the visual studio site refuses to accept it, giving dumb error message Invalid Template File in VSIX. May it be connected somehow to recent migration of "visual studio gallery" into marketplace (does it work at all) - is it me, or them? :)
Should I do something differently for VS 2017, if it's a multi-project template (the multi-project template for 2010-2015 seems to upload fine)?
Or maybe somebody can give me a link/reference to a working source code for multi-project template for Visual Studio 2017 (v3), that can be successfully uploaded to visual studio gallery?
Full source code is available on github, including manifest, and all templates (files with .2017 suffix)

Answering myself, for those who may fall into the same trap :) The problem appeared to be missing <Icon> element in one of the child projects.
After Microsoft migrated the gallery hub to Marketplace, it started go give you much better diagnostics on failures, helping to address those sort of things - now at least it is possible to figure out what the marketplace didn't like in your extension exactly :)
After adding <Icon> the extension was successfully published

No templates in Visual Studio 2017

After a Visual Studio 2017 (RC) installation from scratch, I can't find a standard list of templates. I'm specifically interested in the Console Application (C#) template and the Windows Form (C#) template. I'm pretty sure I'm missing one of the Individual Components. I'm not sure which one is supposed to be installed and I don't want to install all of them.
Please see my list with components installed.

You need to install it by launching the installer.
Click the "Workload" tab* in the upper-left, then check top right ".NET-Desktop Development" and hit install. Note it may modify your installation size (bottom-right), and you can install other Workloads, but you must install ".NET-Desktop Development" at least.
*as seen in comments below, users were not able to achieve the equivalent using the "Individual Components" tab.

If you have installed .NET desktop development and still you can't see the templates, then VS is probably getting the templates from your custom templates folder and not installed.
To fix that, copy the installed templates folder to custom.
This is your "installed" folder
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
14.0\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplates
This is your "custom" folder
C:\Users[your username]\Documents\Visual
Studio\2017\Templates\ProjectTemplates
Typically this happens when you are at the office and you are running VS as an administrator and visual studio is confused how to merge both of them and if you notice they don't have the same folder structure and folder names.. One is CSHARP and the other C#....
I didn't have the same problem when I installed VS 2017 community edition at home though. This happened when I installed visual studio 2017 "enterprise" edition.

I found the path and wrote it in the options

My personal experience was that I had installed the Team Foundation Server client for 2017 first (was using it as a Proof of Concept for our QA team, while I was still using VS2015), then followed it up with Installing Visual Studio 2017 later to begin development.
What I ended up with on my Start Menu was a Visual Studio 2017 and a Visual Studio 2017 (2). The Visual Studio 2017 (2) had all the templates I was missing. Following the steps found in the First answer to this question (which were clear and easy to follow) did not fix my issue. I had thought that launching the client would upgrade to the Development Client, but it did not. I renamed it to Visual Studio Professional, and now have everything I need. Not sure if this happens to anyone else, but it was what happened to me, so I hope this helps someone.

NOTE: this topic is about installation issues with MS project templates.
I came here via a search in Google, I was looking for a missing Template option in Visual Studio 2017 File menu: in VS-2015, it was Export to Template and I used it to add my own standard Project Items.
Meanwhile, I found an answer.. my issue was not related to default templates and it does not need install things. The option Export to Template has been moved to the VS-2017 Project menu !

I had to reinstall .NET desktop development (throught Workload tab), even button was showing: Modify
After that Visual C# selection appeared :)
(And now i can use Console APP Template)

In my case, I had all of the required features, but I had installed the Team Explorer version (accidentally used the wrong installer) before installing Professional.
When running the Team Explorer version, only the Blank Solution option was available.
The Team Explorer EXE was located in:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\TeamExplorer\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe"
Once I launched the correct EXE, Visual Studio started working as expected.
The Professional EXE was located in:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe"

My C++ templates were there all along, it was my C# ones that were missing.
Similar to CSharpie, after trying many modify/re-installs, oddly the following finally worked for me :
- run the installer, but un-select 'Desktop development with C++'.
- allow installer to complete
- run the installer again, and select 'Desktop development with C++'.
- allow installer to complete

In my case, I had all of the required features, but I had installed the Team Explorer version (accidentally used the wrong installer) before installing Professional.
When running the Team Explorer version, only the Blank Solution option was available.
The Team Explorer EXE was located in: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\TeamExplorer\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe"
Once I launched the correct EXE, Visual Studio started working as expected.
The Professional EXE was located in: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe"
This solved my issue, and the reason was I had enterprise edition previously installed and then uninstalled and installed the professional edition. Team Explorer was not modified later when I moved to professional from enterprise edition.

Bulid SQLite-Net Extensions in visual studio professional 2013 but not successful

I am new to windows app and I am going to build the sqlite-net extension project to .dll file in order to make the models have the relationship attribute of one-to-many, one-to-one, many-to-many.
Link: https://bitbucket.org/twincoders/sqlite-net-extensions
This is the info that it shows when I open the project in visual studio 2013.
Unsupported
This version of Visual Studio is unable to open the
following projects. The project types may not be installed or this
version of Visual Studio may not support them. For more information
on enabling these project types or otherwise migrating your assets,
please see the details in the "Migration Report" displayed after
clicking OK.
- IntegrationTests.Touch-MvvmCross, "C:\Users\**\Downloads\sqlite-net-extensions\sqlite-net-extensions\IntegrationTests.Touch\IntegrationTests.Touch-MvvmCross.csproj"
- IntegrationTests.Touch-PCL, "C:\Users\**\Downloads\sqlite-net-extensions\sqlite-net-extensions\IntegrationTests.Touch\IntegrationTests.Touch-PCL.csproj"
No changes required These projects can be opened in Visual Studio
2013, Visual Studio 2012, and Visual Studio 2010 SP1 without changing
them.
- Tests, "C:\Users\**\Downloads\sqlite-net-extensions\sqlite-net-extensions\Tests\Tests.csproj"
- MvvmCross, "MvvmCross"
- SQLiteNetExtensions-MvvmCross, "C:\Users\**\Downloads\sqlite-net-extensions\sqlite-net-extensions\SQLiteNetExtensions\SQLiteNetExtensions-MvvmCross.csproj"
- SQLiteNetExtensions-PCL, "C:\Users\**\Downloads\sqlite-net-extensions\sqlite-net-extensions\SQLiteNetExtensions\SQLiteNetExtensions-PCL.csproj"
- SQLiteNetExtensions, "C:\Users\**\Downloads\sqlite-net-extensions\sqlite-net-extensions\SQLiteNetExtensions.sln"
I try to build it and it shows some errors. So I right click the project and download the missing packages. When I try to build it again, it shows these errors:
Does anyone successfully bulid it to .dll file or anyone can fix the problems like these?
Many Thanks!

The Integration test projects are MonoTouch projects, that won't open in Visual Studio unless you have Xamarin Business license installed in your PC.
However, the SQLite-Net Extensions project is a standard PCL project and you will be able to compile it from Visual Studio without Xamarin. The problem that you are describing is probably related to not having the SQLite-Net dependency downloaded.
Make sure that you have NuGet Package Manager plugin installed and restore NuGet packages for the project to restore the dependencies and it should work.
You can also download the pre-compiled DLL from the Download page in the project page.

I solved it with changing the build platform. Thx guys!

Mvvm Light and Visual C# Express?

Does MVVM Light work with Visual C# Express? Can't seem to get any of the templates showing up.

At this point, I do not support Visual C# express for MVVM Light templates. I only support express editions for the Windows Phone and for Windows 8 (Visual Studio 11 for WinRT).
I will consider supporting Visual C# express in a further revision of the installer. Unfortunately supporting new versions of Visual Studio is quite a lot of work to update the MSI...

It's quite easy to take the templates and move them to the personal template directory and they appear in visual studio 2010 express.
But I can't find the WPF4 dll. In GalaSoft binary dir, there's Silverlight 3/4/5 and WP7/WP71, but no WPF.

According to the MVVM Light Toolkit Codeplex pages, it should. Did you explicitly follow the installation instructions given on this page?

MVVMLight is just MVVM framework. It has nothing to do with project template in Visual Studio. I think your problem is Visual Studio hasn't installed correctly.
Update:
In case WPF project template not show up, run VCSExpress.exe /InstallVSTemplates at your installation path, e.g. $\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\VCSExpress.exe /InstallVSTemplates