Monogame: Add F# templates

[Jjagg]

We currently do not provide F# project templates.
VB templates are tracked in #4127.

[7sharp9]

I added F# templates in 2012: https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame/commit/ca364aca1617cc7ea37af330c12ced1418281eab#diff-88197cac09f46884cee48e17829b0ed0
Not sure what happened to them ...

[harry-cpp]

I have .NET Core templates for F# and VB.Net incoming.

[Jjagg]

I added F# templates in 2012

The old F# templates were removed in #3698. They weren't being used anymore at that point. Looks like they didn't get moved over when some changes where made to how templates where defined.

[realvictorprm]

this needs to be fixed. I can take care of this for Windows and .NET Core I guess if the templates from @cra0zy doesn't fit the needs.

[harry-cpp]

How so, I have submitted 2 templates for F# so far, feel free to start working on any of the remaining ones:

https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame/tree/develop/ProjectTemplates/DotNetTemplate/MonoGame.Templates.FSharp/content

[realvictorprm]

do you know when the next release is made? In my current situation having "official" templates would be of benefit :)

[harry-cpp]

Not sure myself either, but they are not connected to the build bot right now, so even if the release is made, they won't get included.

[7sharp9]

It’s easy enough to add if you watch my latest vid.

On Tue, 30 Apr 2019 at 21:23, Harry [e-mail] wrote:

Not sure myself either, but they are not connected to the build bot right
now, so even if the release is made, they won't get included.

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[Jjagg]

There's very little demand for F# templates, so for the MG team this isn't a priority. But if anyone wants to add the templates they're welcome to. Some templates already exist here, but a lot are missing.

Templates should mimic the C# templates for dotnet new defined here. We can generate Visual Studio and VS for Mac templates from the dotnet new templates so you don't have to worry about that :)

[7sharp9]

To be clear the templates for F# do actually exist in this repo:

dotnet new --install ~/github/MonoGame/ProjectTemplates/DotNetTemplate/MonoGame.Templates.FSharp/content

This will install them from the cloned repo, assuming you cloned it to ~/github/MonoGame

[harry-cpp]

The current FSharp templates are broken and need to be updated, ie. even tho they compile and run they are not even using the correct nuget packages.

[7sharp9]

ok checking in with this one:

they are not even using the correct nuget packages

Where is that specified? I can see a 3.8.* in the package reference the MonoGame.Library.NetStandard.FSharp template which appears the same in the C# one: https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame/blob/develop/Templates/MonoGame.Templates.CSharp/content/MonoGame.Library.NetStandard.CSharp/MGNamespace.csproj#L8