Dan Fernandez, a developer at Microsoft has announced the release of an open-source development tool aimed to bring the Visual Studio experience to building World of Warcraft add-ons.
Key features of AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft include:
* Visual Design Surface for visually designing your controls in World of Warcraft in a drag and drop manner.
* Lua code editor with syntax hi-lighting and code completion.
* Intellisense for FrameXML.
* Automatically generates TOC files.
* Auto generated event LUA event handlers.
* Automatic deployment while developing
* ACE2 addon development wizards
A demonstration video is available here.
This actually seems really cool!
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