How to install XNA game studio on Visual Studio 2012

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Is it possible to create XNA games using Visual Studio 2012

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There seems to be some confusion over how to get this set up for the Express version specifically. Using the Windows Desktop (WD) version of VS Express 2012, I followed the instructions in Steve B's and Rick Martin's answers with the modifications below.

In step 2 rather than copying to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Microsoft\XNA Game Studio 4.0", copy to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\WDExpressExtensions\Microsoft\XNA Game Studio 4.0"
In step 4, after making the changes also add the line <Edition>WDExpress</Edition> (you should be able to see where it makes sense)
In step 5, replace devenv.exe with WDExpress.exe
In Rick Martin's step, replace "%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\Extensions" with "%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\WDExpress\11.0\Extensions"

I haven't done a lot of work since then, but I did manage to create a new game project and it seems fine so far.

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On codeplex was released new XNA Extension for Visual Studio 2012 2013  You can download it from  https   msxna codeplex com releases

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Yes  it s possible with a bit of tweak  Unfortunately  you still have to have VS 2010 installed    First  install XNA Game Studio 4 0  The easiest way is to install the Windows Phone SDK 7 1 which contains everything required  Copy the XNA Game Extension from VS 10 to VS 11 by opening a command prompt  as administrator  and executing the following  may vary if not x64 computer with defaults paths     xcopy  e  C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 10 0 Common7 IDE Extensions Microsoft XNA Game Studio 4 0   C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 11 0 Common7 IDE Extensions Microsoft XNA Game Studio 4 0  Run notepad as administrator then open extension vsixmanifest in the destination directory just created  Upgrade the Supported product version to match the new version  or duplicate the whole VisualStudio element and change the Version attribute  as  brainslugs83 said in comments       lt SupportedProducts gt     lt VisualStudio Version  11 0  gt       lt Edition gt VSTS lt  Edition gt       lt Edition gt VSTD lt  Edition gt       lt Edition gt Pro lt  Edition gt       lt Edition gt VCSExpress lt  Edition gt       lt Edition gt VPDExpress lt  Edition gt     lt  VisualStudio gt   lt  SupportedProducts gt   Don t forget to clear delete your cache in  localappdata  Microsoft VisualStudio 12 0 Extensions  You may have to run the command to tells Visual Studio that new extensions are available  If you see an  access denied  message  try launching the console as an administrator       C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 11 0 Common7 IDE devenv exe   setup    This has been tested for Windows Games  but not WP7 or Xbox games    Edit  According Jowsty  this works also for XBox 360 Games    Edit for Visual Studio 2013  amp  Windows 8 1  See here for documentation on installing Windows Phone SDK 7 1 on Windows 8 1  Use VS version number 12 0 in place of 11 0 for all of these steps  and they will still work correctly

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I found another issue  for some reason if the extensions are cached in the local AppData folder  the XNA extensions never get loaded    You need to remove the files extensionSdks en-US cache and extensions en-US cache from the  LocalAppData  Microsoft VisualStudio 11 0 Extensions folder  These files are rebuilt the next time you launch  If you need access to the Visual Studio startup log to debug what s happening  run devenv exe  log command from the C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 11 0 Common7 IDE directory  assuming you are on a 64 bit machine   The log file generated is located here    AppData  Microsoft VisualStudio 11 0 ActivityLog xml

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