What is the oldest visual studio version in which monogame's latest version is eligible?

Question

I have a low end pc for thelatest versions of visual studio and want to work on monogame so please tell me what version is the last which i should use for the latest monogame version

Answer 1

You might want to use VS Code. It's lighter than any Visual Studios. The only downside is that building/deploying to iOS and Android might be difficult. But you can certainly build your games on PC/Linux.

Using VS Code and the .NET CLI will require you to know the basics of command-line tools.

Next, You would need to install .NET Core SDK 5.0.

After the installation is complete, You need to set up Monogame using the following scripts.

dotnet new --install MonoGame.Templates.CSharp
dotnet tool install --global dotnet-mgcb-editor
mgcb-editor --register

(Taken from here)

Now you're ready to build a project. Open a terminal (CMD or use VS Code) and run

dotnet new mgdesktopgl -o MyGame

This will create a folder "MyGame" and load a Monogame project. You can run it by heading inside the folder and using

dotnet run

I wrote an answer on this here as well.