Missing project sub type error when trying to crea

Question

Hello Im using Visual Studio 2012 and whenver I try to create a new MonoGame content project I get this error...Also if I try to start a windows Mono project or a Android mono project I dont get the same error but whenever i try to compile i get errors, i have unstillaed Mono and xamarin and tried installing and that never solved the issue the only thing left to do is uninstall Visual Studio 2012 but that can take a ton of time so if anyone here can help me it will be appreciated here is the link to the following error.

Answer 1

I think I have a workaround for you, although, I still don't fully understand the issue myself and I'd love someone to shed some light on it.

If you open up the project file as plain text you will see a ProjectTypeGuids like so:

<ProjectTypeGuids>{9B831FEF-F496-498F-9FE8-180DA5CB4258};{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}</ProjectTypeGuids>

If you Google each GUID you will find that one of them is DotNetProjectSubtype id="MonoGame" and the other is Windows (C#).

As far as I can tell you can safely delete the MonoGame one and proceed with your day. I believe it's only used at project creation time.