I don’t understand Visual Studio and why its file size is so massive. I just want an editor with code completion. Monodevelop opens in unity 2019.2, but code completion doesn’t work. I went to preferences and selected it as my editor, and made sure that in the monodevelop options code completion settings were as they were before I upgraded Unity.
Please continue to support Monodevelop. It’s very much preferred. Fighting with Microsoft now trying to get visual Studio installed and losing days on development because of the upgrade.
Does anybody know how to install Monodevelop on Unity 2019.2?
I’m not sure what issues you’re having with Visual Studio, but you can try Visual Studio Code instead. It’s a lightweight text-editor that Unity also supports.
Visual Studio isn’t massive if you install it correctly and only care about Unity. At most we’re talking a mere 1GB which is less than one-tenth the size of the operating system, one-tenth to one-hundredth the size of a modern game, etc.
My recommendation is Script Inspector. It’s a few megabytes and it’s nearly instant to open and close scripts. Plus it lives inside of your project which means you only need to install Unity and it will go where you take your project.
My recommendation with Visual Studio is to always install it as one of the first application you install to your computer after you’ve installed Windows. This is the most painless approach. If you install it after then it’s no longer guaranteed though you shouldn’t have problems in most cases.
It’s important to understand that code completion in MD was completely dependent on a third party tool that was being developed by Unity. When Unity abandoned the code editor they also abandoned the tool that made it function. You can install MD and you can edit code with it, but it will have no more functionality than notepad thanks to that tool no longer being included.
It’s best to move on because realistically it will never come back to this game engine again.
trying visual studio code out. Saw it later on to the side of the download for community. Its very light weight, and i like its built in presets! Trying to figure out now how to get intellisense to activate after putting in a “.” instead of the first letter of what I need.
@Ryiah , I’ll try to move on. It’s been a long road with monodevelop
found this link to help edit some things, but honestly, I pressed some of the quick keys in the article, and magically the intellisense was picking up things faster than monodevelop. Actually not sure what I did. Also poked around using the settings button on the bottom left. Actually glad for now to leave MD in the past. Visual Studio Code is perfect for me. Here’s hoping it’s back to smooth sailing…
alti im thing you can use monodevelop from 2017.4.40 package but you need to correct Assembly_CSharp.csproject in you project folder you need to change tag lang version to 4 : 4
also you can use use SharpDevelop it have binary installator and it support Unity 2020 cproj files.
