Cannot find SpriteFont template using MonoGame in Visual Studio 2012 Express (with XNA 4.0)

Question

When I right click Content folder of my project then Add -> new Element, in the dialog box, selecting XNA Game Studio 4.0 I see only 3 templates, which are:

• content type writer
• content processor
• content importer

Since every tutorials that help in creating screen menus say that I should start by loading SpriteFont template, I think that I've missed something. Any suggestions? Should I give you more informations?

Answer 1

You have to right click your Content project -> add -> new element. If you don't have a Content project you can create one, just right click on your solution -> add -> new project -> XNA Game Studio 4.0 -> Empty Content Project (4.0)

Answer 2

You have to click the solutionname Content node and not the solutionname node. The new items result is based on that.

In my example, right-clicking the PickingContent node>add new items gave me the correct list.

And yes, we're probably doing the same tutorial :)