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so I am currently trying to make a game in Visual Studio (C#) with MonoGame, but the MPT does not open when I try to double-click the Content file in Content Folder. As I watched pretty recent tutorials, everyone worked with Pipeline and had no problems after using the NuGet. In the Content folder I only got the 'obj' folder and the Content.mgcb file.See How Content File Shows In Project

So yeah, I saw that some people figured it out by right-clicking the file and 'open with...' and then The MonoGame Pipeline Tool option would show up. I heard that there's this thing, MGCB Editor out. Is it a replacement for Pipeline? What should I do to get Pipeline?

PS: I am using the latest version of Mono, 3.8.0

HoldOffHunger
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cCyanidec
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  • What the full name of the nuget package `MonoGame` are you using? Also, what the type of your project, `net core 3.1` or `net framework 4.7.2`? And what nuget management format are you using, `packages.config` or `PackageReference`? – Mr Qian Oct 19 '20 at 02:39

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Actually, MonoGame Pipeline Tool is contained into the nuget package dotnet-mgcb-editor.

And so far, The Team has changed to use that one. The old one's instruction is here.

I heard that there's this thing, MGCB Editor out. Is it a replacement for Pipeline? What should I do to get Pipeline?

Yes. It is a replacement for MonoGame Pipeline Tool now and it is used currently.

Before installing such tool, you should install Net Core 3.1 SDK and it requires that.

To install the tool, you should open CMD to install that package, call these:

dotnet tool install -g dotnet-mgcb-editor

And it will install the tool from the nuget package under

C:\Users\xxx(current user)\.dotnet\tools\mgcb-editor.exe

And you can use it there and also you can call it from CMD directly.

Besides, I think the nuget package MonoGame.Content.Builder.Task 3.8.0.1641 is possible and if it does not meet your requirements, you can just ignore it.

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  • Thank you! This is exactly what had to be done. After I installed the MGCB Editor I could finally find the .exe and set it as default. It was quite a pain to search this up, but thanks to people like you, I could finally get back to work! – cCyanidec Nov 01 '20 at 21:00
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C:\Users\username\.dotnet\tools\.store\dotnet-mgcb-editor\3.8.0.1641\dotnet-mgcb-editor\3.8.0.1641\tools\netcoreapp3.1\any\mgcb-editor-wpf.exe

After installing the tool as per accepted answer, double clicking on Content.mgcb inside visual studio still didn't work. Associating the .mgcb extension with the above file worked for me.

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I ran this piece of code in my CMD after to the accepted answer and I was able to launch it from with VS.

First run this as in the accepted answer:

dotnet tool install -g dotnet-mgcb-editor

Then this

mgcb-editor --register
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