Difficulty Installing XNA Game Studio 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 - xna

Does anyone know how to properly install XNA Game Studio 4.0 with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 ? I have been having trouble getting the XNA Game Studio to recognize the Visual Studio. I read that once installed you should be able to run Visual Studio from under the XNA folder in the Start Menu, but I found no such option. I have an assignment due in a couple of days and I'm really in a panic right now to get this installed right. Any help will be much appreciated.
I'm running PC with Windows 7 installed and I just installed Microsoft Visual Studio Express C# 2010 and Microsoft XNA Game Studio 4.0.
Please give step by step instructions if possible. Thanks for taking the time read this post!

Start Visual C# & create a new project. You should be able to choose either Windows Game or Xbox 360 Game as your project type.

I had the same issue. I just reinstalled XNA Game Studio 4.0, loaded visual studio and then clicked on XNA Game Studio 4.0 under Installed Templates. Hope this helps.

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XNA Game Studio 4.0 Refresh doesn't work

I have Windows 8 and installed VS2010 and VS2012. I've installed XNAGS 4 refresh. But when I open VS2010 there is still no templates for XNA. And in VS2012 there is only Pipeline Library and Content Project. I don't care about VS2012. How can I make it work in VS2010?
Try these visual studio XNA extensions, they work for VS2010, VS2012 and VS2013:
https://msxna.codeplex.com/releases
(Just download the latest release and follow the instructions that come with the package)

VS 2013 and Lync sdk 2013

Are VS 2013 and Lync sdk 2013 not compatible with each other ? i am getting error while installing sdk.
it says vs 2010 sp1 or above required. anyone else tried the same ?
What solved my problem was: with 7zip extracted the content from the installer, and then installed the correct version (x86 or x64).
After that opened Visual Studio, created a new WPF application and in the view went to the toolbox.
All the controls from Lync were there ready to use.
Visual studio templates (if they exist) were the only thing that I didn't manage to find/install.
Regards,
The install does say "or higher," but it lies. VS2013 is not supported.
True.
The Lync 2013 SDK docs on MSDN also specify VS 2010 SP1 or VS2012. See this url: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj933215.aspx
A note on one of the microsoft forums suggests an upgrade is in the work and will be published soon.
From the download page, I don't see the "or above" mentioned anywhere, they're very explicit on the version of Visual Studio to be installed.
The following requirements must be met before developing applications
with Lync SDK.
Visual Studio 2010 RTM for Microsoft Windows Forms or WPF development.
Visual Studio 2010 SP1 for Silverlight development.
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 or later service pack.
Microsoft Silverlight 5.0 runtime.
Microsoft Silverlight 5 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 SP1.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36824
Error message when you install Lync 2013 SDK on a computer that is running Visual Studio 2013:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2918796
Although, I'm not sure how you install the SDK first, since it requires the SilverLight tools, which requre the SDK .. which... 0_o

Error when creating an XNA project

I've just installed XNA Game Studio 4. But when I create a new XNA project, I get an error:
"Code/XnaWindowsGeme.vstemplate" was not found.
What should I do?
Based on the file extension and the context in which the error appeared, Visual Studio seems to be failing in looking up the template associated with an XNA Windows Game Project. My guess is that the XNA installer somehow failed to install this template to your Visual Studio instance. Possibly due to multiple instances/versions of Visual Studio installed. You could also try reinstalling XNA.

Where can I find the latest version of XNA to download?

I'm using Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and I after searching for XNA Download on google, I found this page:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/xna/archive/2010/09/16/xna-game-studio-4-0-available-for-download.aspx
Following the link there, I get to this page:
http://create.msdn.com/en-US/SiteError.aspx?404;aspx&404;http://create.msdn.com:80/launchcenter?lc=1033
So this is kind of confusing for someone starting out.
What is the latest release version of XNA I can use for PC/WP7 game development?
Where can I find the installer to download it?
I don't need a bootstrapper to download Visual Studio for me, as I already has the IDE installed. Thank you!
Here: Microsoft XNA Game Studio 4.0 download.
Also see Windows Phone Developer Tools: Offline ISO Image.
But note that the Web Installer available here will only download and install what you need. Since you already have Visual Studio, it will just integrate itself nicely.
The latest version is XNA 4.0. The bootstrapper is a smart installer and only installs the components you are missing. For example if you have Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate then it is not going to install the Express version as well. It also includes a Windows Phone emulator if you are interested in that. And here's the direct link to the installer.

How do I get MVC installed into Visual Studio 2008?

Does anyone have any basic instructions for setting up a first MVC project in Visual Studio 2008? I just installed Visual Studio 2008 and I am finding various instructions on how to set up the programming environment, but it's very complicated and there is no way to tell if the route I am taking is the best one.
If I want to start developing a MVC project, what do I need to do in order to get it going?
I am very confused by the "Web Client Guidance" instructions. For example, they don't say where to put the Microsoft.Web.Mvc.dll file.
Use Visual studio 2008 sp1 to get mvc installed...
Here is the download link
To get started With MVC
System Requirements
Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2008; Windows Vista; Windows XP
.NET 3.5 SP1. Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2008 SP1 or Visual Web Developer 2008 SP1 are required to use certain parts of this feature.
The official Microsoft MVC links for Visual Studio 2008 now seem to be dead.
To get this working on my old Vista laptop (with Visual Studio 2008) in 2013, I did this:
- Upgraded to Visual Studio SP1
- Followed this link to download and install "AspNetMVCRC-setup.msi" (1.74 MB):
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=141184&clcid=0x409
Once that was in place, my old Visual Studio let me create "Web | ASP.NET MVC Web Application" projects. Took about an hour and a half from end-to-end.
All I did was install the MVC installer and I opened their example app and it worked.\
MVC Installer
First of all, you need to download MVC from here.
After that, proceed with the installation.
You might want to refer to the tutorial for starters.

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