Behind the scenes<\/h2>\n
To create this experience, we built on top of a lot of the existing ecosystems, and extended Visual Studio with MinecraftForge project templates, a NuGet package that is installed by each template that orchestrates the provisioning build and a VS editor extension (MEF-based) for Java IntelliSense and Browsing support<\/p>\n
Relative to the existing ecosystem, this isn’t much work. This extension relies on several open-source projects to accomplish the current experience:<\/p>\n
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- MinecraftForge<\/strong><\/a> is the engine behind the modding development experience.<\/li>\n
- Sam Harwell’s Java Language Support<\/strong><\/a> VS extension is the project providing the Java project system, build system, basic editor facilities and the rich Java debugger capabilities in Visual Studio. We’ve worked closely with Sam to make sure that we refine the end-to-end Minecraft development experience and simplify its acquisition. Thanks Sam!<\/li>\n
- Eclipse JDT<\/strong><\/a> is bundled together with this project as an Eclipse application<\/a> and is used to provide all IntelliSense and browsing information inside the VS editor.<\/li>\n
- Aidan Brady’s Mekanism<\/strong><\/a> is bundled as a Minecraft mod sample inside MMDP’s New Project Dialog.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The Visual Studio addin for Minecraft can be downloaded from the Visual Studio gallery<\/a>. It supports both VS 2013 Update 4 and VS 2015 RC. If you’re interested in jumping into its source code and learn more about how it was built, head over to GitHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/td>\nMarian Luparu<\/strong>, Senior Program Manager, Visual C++ <\/strong><\/p>\n Marian has been a member of the Visual Studio team for the past 9 years. He is working on making Visual C++ more productive for writing, building, and diagnosing code. Before that, he worked on defining and implementing the C++ programming model for Windows Runtime. Lately, he’s been also playing Minecraft a lot.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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- Sam Harwell’s Java Language Support<\/strong><\/a> VS extension is the project providing the Java project system, build system, basic editor facilities and the rich Java debugger capabilities in Visual Studio. We’ve worked closely with Sam to make sure that we refine the end-to-end Minecraft development experience and simplify its acquisition. Thanks Sam!<\/li>\n