Microsoft Announces Minecraft Modding Extension For Visual Studio

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Minecraft Visual Studio

At Build Day 2 keynote, Microsoft has officially announced Minecraft modding extension for Visual Studio. It simplifies the development of Minecraft mods within Visual Studio.

Minecraft Mod Developer Pack extension (MMDP) is comprised of 3 components:

  • MinecraftForge project templates
  • A NuGet package that is installed by each template that orchestrates the provisioning build
  • A VS editor extension (MEF-based) for Java IntelliSense & Browsing support

This Visual Studio extension can be downloaded from the Visual Studio gallery right now: http://aka.ms/vsminecraft. It supports bothVS 2013 Update 4 and VS 2015 RC.

Find more details here.

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