I just wanted to say thank you for providing this perfect build for windoze. I've tried compiling from source several times from git and have had so many errors I was giving up on ever seeing my favourite IDE on MS ever again. I don't want to use that version that sold its soul to MS. Obviously i prefer to run this on Linux but there are times it is nice to have the option to use Monodevelop elsewhere, it works, it's clean and runs so much better than VS or Xamarin. Thanks Dev, this is not an issue but a thumbs up to you for compiling this.

This may be outside of the scope of the project, but I'd like to request consideration for the ability to use mono to do builds (like in Linux) instead of relying on MS-Build-Tools .

I started to ship test build of MSI installer. Please try out and leave your feedback below.

The download-Link
https://ci.appveyor.com/project/lextm/monodevelop-windows/build/artifacts
cannot be followed since it results in "project not found or asccess denied".

The type initializer for 'MonoDevelop.Projects.MSBuild.MSBuildEvaluationContext' threw an exception.

After installing and starts a new project, that shows up after I click 'Create'. I have MSBuild 16 installed, is it incompatible? Please, help me with this. I don't really know what I am doing. Thank you. Just wanna start C# with a light-weight IDE.

我用您的生成的.msi来新建 gtk#的工程会出现下面的错误

排查后发现是执行MonoDevelop/bin/MonoDevelop.MSBuildBuilder.exe的时候会出现越界

请问您遇到过这个情况吗 ？ gtk# 和 msbuild15.0我已安装

I recently stumbled across your MonoDevelop repository on GitHub. After installing the 2 requirements and MD, I am unable to launch it. The process opens briefly and then exits. Any thoughts? Been looking for a Windows build for a while. Let me know if I can provide more information. Thanks.

first of all thank you for the compiled version.
When i'd like to create a new solution for a winform with GTK, I had this error:

MonoDevelop.Projects.MSBuild.ProjectEvaluationException: The type initializer for 'MonoDevelop.Projects.MSBuild.MSBuildEvaluationContext' threw an exception. at MonoDevelop.Projects.MSBuild.MSBuildProjectInstance.Evaluate() at MonoDevelop.Projects.Project.CreateProjectInstaceForConfiguration(String conf, String platform, Boolean onlyEvaluateProperties) at MonoDevelop.Projects.Project.InitMainGroupProperties(MSBuildPropertyGroup globalGroup) at MonoDevelop.Projects.Project.InitBeforeProjectExtensionLoad() at MonoDevelop.Projects.Project.OnInitialize() at MonoDevelop.Projects.DotNetProject.OnInitialize() at MonoDevelop.CSharp.Project.CSharpProject.OnInitialize() at MonoDevelop.Projects.WorkspaceObject.EnsureInitialized() at MonoDevelop.Projects.MSBuild.MSBuildProjectService.CreateProject(String typeGuid, String[] flavorGuids) at MonoDevelop.Projects.ProjectService.CreateDotNetProject(String language, String[] flavorGuids) at MonoDevelop.Ide.Gui.Document.EnsureAnalysisDocumentIsOpen() at MonoDevelop.Ide.Gui.Document.<StartReparseThreadDelayed>d__128.MoveNext() --- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown --- at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw() at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.AsyncMethodBuilderCore.<>c.<ThrowAsync>b__6_0(Object state) at MonoDevelop.Ide.DispatchService.GtkSynchronizationContext.TimeoutProxy.HandlerInternal(IntPtr data) Loaded Assembly 'C:\Windows\Microsoft.Net\assembly\GAC_MSIL\System.Security.Cryptography.Algorithms\v4.0_4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a\System.Security.Cryptography.Algorithms.dll' Loading module C:\Windows\Microsoft.Net\assembly\GAC_MSIL\System.Security.Cryptography.Algorithms\v4.0_4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a\System.Security.Cryptography.Algorithms.dll in application domain 1:MonoDevelop.exe Failed to load pdb for assembly C:\Windows\Microsoft.Net\assembly\GAC_MSIL\System.Security.Cryptography.Algorithms\v4.0_4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a\System.Security.Cryptography.Algorithms.dll. Error code E_PDB_NO_DEBUG_INFO(0x806D0014) Loaded Assembly 'C:\Windows\Microsoft.Net\assembly\GAC_MSIL\mscorlib.resources\v4.0_4.0.0.0_fr_b77a5c561934e089\mscorlib.resources.dll' Loading module C:\Windows\Microsoft.Net\assembly\GAC_MSIL\mscorlib.resources\v4.0_4.0.0.0_fr_b77a5c561934e089\mscorlib.resources.dll in application domain 1:MonoDevelop.exe Failed to load pdb for assembly C:\Windows\Microsoft.Net\assembly\GAC_MSIL\mscorlib.resources\v4.0_4.0.0.0_fr_b77a5c561934e089\mscorlib.resources.dll. Error code E_PDB_NO_DEBUG_INFO(0x806D0014)

Regards

This repo started as an experiment to build MonoDevelop 7.x on Windows and ship MSI packages for myself. Good to see they helped others as well.

However, MonoDevelop is an abandoned project at this moment, while the whole ecosystem is swiftly moving forward. Therefore, things can break easily and I personally have no interest in fixing any of them.

If you want to step up and take over the responsibility, you are welcome to join the dotdevelop project,

https://github.com/dotdevelop/dotdevelop

It already achieves basic functionality on Linux, so you can use that as the foundation for a Windows version.

Good luck.

I just downloaded MonoDevelop using the Setup.msi and when I open a project I get an error:
"Error while trying to load the project 'ProjectDirectory\file.csproj': Could not load type 'Microsoft.Build.Framework, Version= 15.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=whatevermyidIs'."

I have installed everything I installed Visual Studio Build Tools 2017 from chocolatey and Installed Gtk# from the link I have .NET Framework 4.8 installed and im running the latest version of Windows 10 Home

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it was fixed in v8.0.0.1557

mono/monodevelop@25d91fc

Issue 1

Creating a new GTK# 2.0 project might trigger an error dialog saying "File Widget could not be written".

Workaround: Click OK to dismiss that dialog. Delete MainWindow.cs. Then create a new Gtk Window called MainWindow.

Issue 2

Reference of "System" might show an error icon (white cross in red circle).

Fix: Check "Project Options", and make sure that under "Build | General" a valid version is chosen as "Target framework". Change to another framework version, or install the Developer Pack of that framework version can fix the issue.