Looks like we have some old gems listed.

The instructions for installing MonoDevelop on Ubuntu 18.04, specifically importing the key to the apt server, requires dirmngr which I think has a dbus dependency and is not compatible with all instances of Ubuntu 18.04, including Ubuntu 18.04 on WSL.

See this bug at WSL.

See this workaround script I created for installing on WSL bypassing dirmngr.

Some users might want to install MonoDevelop on WSL.

I propose:

1. List installing MonoDevelop on WSL using existing binaries as an option on the Windows installation instructions page, in addition to building from source.
2. Either list the tweaked instructions for importing apt keys as listed in my workaround script in instructions for 1 above or point users to Linux instructions once they've gotten WSL installed and adjust the Ubuntu 18.04 key import instructions to be more friendly with WSL.

Also, FYI, MonoDevelop does not build on

It appears that the Development - Getting Started article may need to be updated to omit the --profile portion of the configure command. It may just be that line that needs to be updated, if that is sufficient for a clean Mac install. Alternatively, it could potentially point to OS-specific sections of the dedicated Building MonoDevelop page.

Background (should it help)

I decided to do a source-build of MonoDevelop on my OS X machine and got started by clicking the "Dev" link on the homepage, ending up on Development - Getting Started. From there, it suggested I run ./configure --profile=core (skipping the offer to run a Bitly link through Ruby for an OS X install). When that command ran, it failed with an error.

Error: automake failed.

Have you followed http://monodevelop.com/Developers/Mac_Support/Building_MonoDevelop_on_OS_X ?

FWIW, in the console output, the only error I could find prior to that seemed non-critical.

Makefile.am: error: required file './ChangeLog' not found

After following the dependency steps from the Mac OSX section of Building MonoDevelop, but not before the make steps, I tried the original ./configure --profile=core command again. It still failed with the same error message and URL recommendation.

Just for fun, I ignored the error and ran the Mac-specific make steps anyway. It built and ran successfully.

./configure --profile=mac
make
make run

Hello, I suggest using HTTPS protocol for embedding YouTube videos on documentation pages.

Mixed Content: The page at 'https://www.monodevelop.com/documentation/creating-custom-widgets-with-monodevelop/' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure resource 'http://www.youtube.com/embed/YymHsaZu8rM'. This request has been blocked; the content must be served over HTTPS.

@badprogramshere commented on Sat Jan 19 2019

Upon running the commands cd main/build/MacOSX && make MonoDevelop.app && open MonoDevelop.app, as suggested by the MonoDevelop website, I get this error:

make: *** No rule to make target 'MonoDevelop.app'. Stop.

@Therzok commented on Sat Jan 19 2019

The target is make app

hello can i add arabic

I am very new to programming, and was going through the Creating ASP.NET Projects tutorial. The steps in 'Creating the Solution' on that page no longer seem to apply. 'Adding some CodeBehind' resulted in a CS0103 error for outputlabel.Text in Default.aspx.cs which appears to have been fixed by editing Default.aspx.designer.cs. I would like to work on this, but thought I should start here as I am inexperienced and may be seeing problems where there are none or misunderstanding them.

Please I need help on how to download it for unity

Probably the format for tables in MD requires column descriptions. Tables used in API Overview don't have such data and they won't render.

Also, the html formatting is rendered as plain text if you make it work as a table.

Hey. So... you say in https://github.com/mono/md-website/blob/gh-pages/developers/index.md that you need Screenshots.

Is there any guidelines for the pictures? I mean, there's the features listed on the Screenshots page, but beyond that is there any preferences on the OS, MD version, Xamarin's branding presence, picture resolution and stuff?

1. The link in the bullet "Install the Mono libraries package (installer)" "https://files.xamarin.com/~jeremie/MonoLibraries.msi" is no longer accessible;
2. The link in the bullet "Install GNU Gettext tools (from here)" "http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gettext.htm" seems too old (last changed 6 May 2005). A newer version published on 2020-08-12 https://mlocati.github.io/articles/gettext-iconv-windows.html is available.

URL: https://www.monodevelop.com/documentation/creating-a-simple-solution/

It appears that MonoDevelop's menus have changed and this introduction tutorial has become difficult to follow for new users as a result. I went through it on Linux (pop_OS, similar to ubuntu) and ran into a number of problems.

• Step 1 - C# cannot be selected first.
• Step 2 - same problem as above. It also might be difficult to understand what is meant by "the Solution icon in the Solution Pad". Consider adding "Pad" or "Solution Pad" to the Terminology section. Consider adding methods for re-opening the Solution Pad in case it was closed (View>Pads>Solution)
• Step 3 - could not find Common on this menu at all, much less "Startup Properties". Is this setting still in there?

I'm trying to remote debugging. But I can't...

Steps (using Windows):

1. I set an environment variable named MONODEVELOP_SDB_TEST to 1.
2. Open project.
3. Run -> Run With -> Custom Command Mono Soft Debugger.
4. Write IP, Port.
5. Click 'Listen' (or 'Connect', have the same problem).

After that I have a message:
"Could not launch web server. Unable to cast object of type 'MonoDevelop.AspNet.Execution.AspNetExecutionCommand' to type 'MonoDevelop.Core.Execution.DotNetExecutionCommand' ".

Tarballs from http://download.mono-project.com/sources/monodevelop/ are either broken or do not get updated at all. This is a problem for Linux package maintainers.

Hi mono developers,

I wanted to know when the MonoDevelop version for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS will be released.

This issue points out a quite minor issue with the page styling for task lists. The bullet points appear to intersect the edge of the list rather than appear within the list. This would be quite a simple fix that I would be happy to make a PR for if it is something that should be fixed.

This can be seen on a number of pages, including the ToDo page.

• Example:
  

I came here to get a visual studio alternative and what I did found?
Install visual studio to compile monodevelop (lowercase on purpose)

Well... that's....

What can I say

hope in the future I will find an IDE with GUI builder, codewritter compiler and debugger etc,,,, a bit more user friendly: just install and play with.. I would like to write create some thing, just compile and make it work just out of the box
I have even tried CodeBlocks too but it needs a lot of preparation to use it with wxwidgets... Just it doesn't work right after setup,

Maybe I am born in the wrong planet because this seems to be the planet Microsoft not planet Earth
But it seems that is not that day!
Hope in the future will change way of doing things.

I am developing XML formatter add in for Visual Studio for Mac.
I am in the process of bundling and publishing it. But the site is not letting me register. I tried to link my google account.

NOTICE

Registration of new accounts has been disabled.

Is there an alternative ?

Raised issue here as well

I am trying to develop an extension where you show a popup with some text fields. Depending on the input , the extension will generate some code or write some directories/files.

I got the last part working but i am not able to show a popup or dialog screen. The example below suggest clicking Alt + Insert which is equivalent to fn + return + option keys.

I am not getting any response in Visual Studio IDE.
My question is how to activate this popup feature in Visual Studio for Mac and is it possible to implement my scenario?

https://www.monodevelop.com/documentation/feature-list/quick-code-generation/

ddobrev/QtSharp#67

This lacks the link to MonoLibraries. Tracking it down here.

How can we use the attributes [DataInclude] and [DataItem] for namespace MonoDevelop.Core.Serialization? And what's the difference between them?

after updating my visual studio to latest version 2019. I noticed that the DateInserter project i created is not working in the new 2019 IDE.

I noticed that some Classes are obsolete such as doc.Editor . I am not sure if it's the responsible for this issue.

I am getting the following when building but it completes the build:

WARNING [2019-04-04 15:24:26Z]: Stale account, cannot get vsid Error: did not find one of the files in sources//Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/External/monodoc/MonoTouch-man

INFO [2019-04-04 15:24:24Z]: Fetching auth token for [[email protected]]. ERROR [2019-04-04 15:24:24Z]: Account was stale and reauthentication was silent, cannot get a token at this time.

Hello:

I have been trying to install MonoDevelop on Kali (AKA Debian Buster) Linux. It appears to have broken the Synaptic Package Manager. No matter what I do, I can't seem to resolve the follow error:

E: /var/cache/apt/archives/libmono-corlib4.5-cil_6.12.0.122-0xamarin1+debian10b1_all.deb: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/mono/4.5/mscorlib.dll', which is also in package libmono-corlib4.5-dll 6.8.0.105+dfsg-3.2

If someone could send me a workaround or a way to fix this I would appreciate it as I can't install any other software as long as these broken packages remain. As I am a relative newbie to Linux, a list of the explicit CLI commands would be helpful.

Thanks!

The feature list currently shows python support as being a feature. However it appears that python support has been removed some time ago.

Perhaps this entry should be removed given the project does not seem to have python support any more.

Could you please provide a WinForms designer in MonoDevelop?

Now, MonoDevelop does not have a WinForms designer, and WinForms files can only be edited manually (that is, by code).

According to the web page "https://www.mono-project.com/archived/winforms_designer/", there is an unfinished WinForms designer. It seems that this designer is close to being finished.

That web page says "The main stumble point is the lack of true Control transparency (WS_EX_TRANSPARENT), which is not yet supported by the MWF X11 backend, but is required for a proper Drag and Drop and other interaction (snap lines, etc) on the design service." But it seems that, this is not a big problem. Maybe things can be simplified. For example, when doing Drag and Drop, the designer may simply show a "placeholder" image instead of showing the actual control. For snap lines, maybe the designer can draw them manually, or simply do not show them. The Form designer of Visual Basic 6.0 does not have snap lines at all, but it is still very useful.

Besides this, it may need some efforts to put this designer into MonoDevelop. Now it seems that this designer is standalone.

Add a selector at the top with Linux/Mac/Windows to see how it would look on all the platforms?

Cannot start process because a file name has not been provided

Which version of MonoDevelop was the Creating A Simple Solution tutorial written for?

Some links on pages for documentation are directing to "404 Not Found".
Most of them are directing to http://www.go-mono.com/md/screencasts (like the Packaging.ogg found in https://github.com/mono/md-website/blob/gh-pages/documentation/building-packages-with-monodevelop.md )

If these files are no longer available please remove them. Or point here where these files are in order to be changed by any volunteer.

https://github.com/mono/md-website/blob/gh-pages/documentation/creating-c-and-cpp-projects.md

As C++ binding has been removed and the separate repo is idle, I think the above article should be brought offline to avoid confusion.

I tried using monodevelop for dotnet-core development. I'm using the lates dotnet-core runtime and the lates dotnet-core. The solution builds succesfully with dotnet build and runs with dotnet run without issues.
However attempting to build within monodevelop I get this error:

/opt/dotnet/sdk/3.0.100-preview3-010431/Sdks/Microsoft.NET.Sdk/targets/Microsoft.PackageDependencyResolution.targets(5,5): Error MSB4018: The "ResolvePackageAssets" task failed unexpectedly.
System.TypeLoadException: Could not resolve type with token 0100003f from typeref (expected class 'NuGet.Packaging.Core.PackageDependency' in assembly 'NuGet.Packaging, Version=5.0.0.4, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35')
  at Microsoft.NET.Build.Tasks.ResolvePackageAssets+CacheWriter.GetPlatformPackageExclusions () [0x000d7] in <9524e6fbf1724027a475d15b01fab866>:0 
  at Microsoft.NET.Build.Tasks.ResolvePackageAssets+CacheWriter..ctor (Microsoft.NET.Build.Tasks.ResolvePackageAssets task, System.IO.Stream stream) [0x0009b] in <9524e6fbf1724027a475d15b01fab866>:0 
  at Microsoft.NET.Build.Tasks.ResolvePackageAssets+CacheReader.CreateReaderFromDisk (Microsoft.NET.Build.Tasks.ResolvePackageAssets task, System.Byte[] settingsHash) [0x0003a] in <9524e6fbf1724027a475d15b01fab866>:0 
  at Microsoft.NET.Build.Tasks.ResolvePackageAssets+CacheReader..ctor (Microsoft.NET.Build.Tasks.ResolvePackageAssets task) [0x00015] in <9524e6fbf1724027a475d15b01fab866>:0 
  at Microsoft.NET.Build.Tasks.ResolvePackageAssets.ReadItemGroups () [0x00000] in <9524e6fbf1724027a475d15b01fab866>:0 
  at Microsoft.NET.Build.Tasks.ResolvePackageAssets.ExecuteCore () [0x00018] in <9524e6fbf1724027a475d15b01fab866>:0 
  at Microsoft.NET.Build.Tasks.TaskBase.Execute () [0x00000] in <9524e6fbf1724027a475d15b01fab866>:0 
  at Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskExecutionHost.Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.ITaskExecutionHost.Execute () [0x00029] in <58f0218f988743a48dd7c84cbe933f4e>:0 
  at Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskBuilder.ExecuteInstantiatedTask (Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.ITaskExecutionHost taskExecutionHost, Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.Logging.TaskLoggingContext taskLoggingContext, Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskHost taskHost, Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.ItemBucket bucket, Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskExecutionMode howToExecuteTask) [0x001f6] in <58f0218f988743a48dd7c84cbe933f4e>:0  (MSB4018) (Msf.Common)

Here's the output of dotnet --info:

dotnet --info
.NET Core SDK (reflecting any global.json):
 Version:   3.0.100-preview3-010431
 Commit:    d72abce213

Runtime Environment:
 OS Name:     arch
 OS Version:  
 OS Platform: Linux
 RID:         linux-x64
 Base Path:   /opt/dotnet/sdk/3.0.100-preview3-010431/

Host (useful for support):
  Version: 3.0.0-preview3-27503-5
  Commit:  3844df9537

.NET Core SDKs installed:
  2.2.105 [/opt/dotnet/sdk]
  3.0.100-preview3-010431 [/opt/dotnet/sdk]

.NET Core runtimes installed:
  Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 3.0.0-preview3-19153-02 [/opt/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
  Microsoft.NETCore.App 3.0.0-preview3-27503-5 [/opt/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]

To install additional .NET Core runtimes or SDKs:
  https://aka.ms/dotnet-download

Attaching pic of the (I assume) relevant settings in monodevelop:

The "Visual Studio for Mac" link below the "MonoDevelop 7.x and later" title on the release notes page links to a 404 page.

The issue is found in this file: https://github.com/mono/md-website/blob/gh-pages/documentation/release-notes/index.md