MonoDevelop Wont Open
On my Windows 10 laptop when I want to edit a script I just created. I double-click on the script and it wont open but it has the loading arrow. I have tried to completely remove Unity and reinstall it but I was completely unsuccessful, tried updating .NET Framework.. still not working, I've tried to also download Xamarin but that crashes every time I open the damn software :/ ... I don't want to use Visual Studio since on my laptop it takes a long time to booth up and that's time taken out of my production in Unity so keeping it to MonoDevelop is the best option for me.
Answer by mwaller_RM · Sep 22, 2017 at 02:24 PM
I had the same problem, I tried uninstalling, clearing out things in the registry and even adding a dll other forums said was missing. Nothing worked. I finally found a log in AppData/Local for mono develop that explained what was going on. I couldnt find a file in AppData/Roaming. Simply remove the monodevelop folders in AppData/Roaming and it fixed everything.
Here is the error i was getting:
ERROR [2017-09-22 10:07:49Z]: Error loading properties from file 'C:\Users\me\AppData\Roaming\ MonoDevelop-Unity-5.0\Config\MonoDevelopProperties.xml': System.Xml.XmlException: '.', hexadecimal value 0x00, is an invalid character. Line 1, position 1. at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Exception e) at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(String res, String[] args) at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ThrowInvalidChar(Char[] data, Int32 length, Int32 invCharPos) at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseRootLevelWhitespace() at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseDocumentContent() at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Read() at MonoDevelop.Core.Properties.Load(String fileName) in c:\buildslave\monoDevNGExAddin\monodevelop\main\src\core\MonoDevelop.Core\MonoDevelop.Core\ Properties.cs:line 323 at MonoDevelop.Core.PropertyService.LoadProperties(String fileName) in c:\buildslave\monoDevNGExAddin\monodevelop\main\src\core\MonoDevelop.Core\MonoDevelop.Core\ PropertyService.cs:line 214
Hope this helps you. NOTE: if you have tried to open a few times you may want to open the tast manager and kill the monodevelop process(s) that are running or restart your pc. each time i tried to open it, it would start a a new task but not open.
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