Support for texture2D.Sample in vs2017?

[DaedalusGame]

My current version is 1.1.300 and texture2D appears to be missing the newer Sample methods, because HLSLTools fills my errorlog with HLSL0031 Type 'texture' does not have a method 'Sample(SamplerState, float2)'. I tried to suppress the error but to no effect, is there any other solution to this?

[DaedalusGame]

For now I've disabled Error Reporting in Options > Text Editor > HLSL > Advanced

[tgjones]

HLSL Tools does support the newer Sample methods on objects like Texture2D. Can you paste the declaration of your texture here, as well as your call to Sample?

[DaedalusGame]

Ah right, i probably should've posted that to begin with.

Declaration (https://github.com/DaedalusGame/RogueTower/blob/90f11c539c1c68209f4d4458447e9e7b0cac9614/RogueTower/Content/effects.fx#L15):

texture2D texture_main : register(t0);
texture2D texture_map : register(t1);
SamplerState sampler_main;

Sample (https://github.com/DaedalusGame/RogueTower/blob/90f11c539c1c68209f4d4458447e9e7b0cac9614/RogueTower/Content/effects.fx#L78):

float4 color = texture_main.Sample(sampler_main, input.TextureCoordinates) * input.Color;

I'll admit that I'm rather amateurish at writing HLSL, and I think monogame's HLSL might have some aberrations (internally they can compile shaders to both HLSL and GLSL).

[tgjones]

Oops, I'm really sorry for the long delay! I think this could be fixed by changing your texture declarations to use Texture2D instead of texture2D. If I recall correctly, MonoGame's effect compiler does allow that. Please let me know if that doesn't fix the issue.