Cannot find, set up, or anything MonoDevelop

[Squidlit]

Hello all,

I’m desperately trying to get MonoDevelop to work with Unity, but I’m at my wit’s end and trying not to cry from frustration. I’ve re-installed Unity three times today with every single package option available to me checked, and also tried installing MonoDevelop directly from their website. I can’t seem to get anything to work, as I cannot find a monodevelop.exe file to select from Edit > Preferences > External Tools > External Script Editor, nor does it show up as it should. The only thing I can find is a mono.exe from the MonoDevelop install, which does absolutely nothing.

Any and all help you could suggest would be greatly appreciated. Please let me know if there is any additional information I could provide that can lead to a solution. I’ll be checking this thread constantly.

[tswierkot]

Unity deprecated support for MonoDevelop, that might be the reason:
https://blogs.unity3d.com/2018/01/05/discontinuing-support-for-monodevelop-unity-starting-in-unity-2018-1/

using MonoDevelop on 2018.1

When I double clicked a script I was surprised how fast VS started up, then I realized it was monodev So I poke at preferences to set it to VS and it’s not built in, I guess the downloader keeps its preferences from the previous download [image] After playing with monodev for a minute I notice that none of the autocomplete works for the new stuff. How do I set that up (the easy way)?

I recommend using a more modern IDE, such as Visual Studio Community, VS Code (both free) or JetBrains Rider. All of them work very well with Unity and have a vibrant community.