AddOn Studio 2010 for World of Warcraft: Difference between revisions

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=== What you need ===

=== Other installs and downloads ===

Current version:

* {{release-4|AddOnStudio|WoW||3.0.220514.0|5/14/2022}}

* {{release-4|AddOnStudio|WoW||3.0.220407.6|4/28/2022}}

* {{release-4|AddOnStudio|WoW||3.0.220325.0|3/25/2022}}

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Other editions:

* <!--{{NYR-item|NYR}}--> [[AddOn Studio 2022 for WoW]] - 64-bit, windows 7 and 10 only. same wow features

Release information:

* [//addonstudio.org/wow/readme AddOn Studio for WoW requirements]

; Initial installation:

;Updating:

;Basic usage:

;Support:

* [[AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft documentation|AddOn Studio documentation]] and Quick Start Guide

;Today's Reality

What this product really always was, and is, is a general, modern and well-featured [[wikipedia:Integrated_development_environment|IDE]] for WoW AddOn development, using a free Visual Studio back-end (much like the free Express and Community versions of Visual Studio for C#, C++ and the Web), with additional support for graphical frame development. There are quite a few bells and whistles too, including supporting nearly every VS integration feature available, which would be rare for a game production tool of any kind. This all together threatens to make AddOn development tools first class citizens, in a world where that almost never happens.

; What Changed

* Support for the installer was dropped - Installers, especially for a VS shell product are fragile and non-trivial, and because of this would require more traditional packaging and release QA than is practical. This was one of the biggest headaches faced with 1.0 and 2.0 versions, which had a history of leaving most first time users stranded at some point. Instead, a great deal of work in this version, was put into making a more sustainable 'portable install' style product, where you just drop the files and run it. Any remaining setup actions are detected automatically and run at startup. The 'reset.cmd' can be run any time, after closing AddOn Studio, to 'reinstall' and restart automatic setup.

* Support for Visual Studio 'Web Projects' was added - Support was added in this rendition of AddOn Studio for basic web project support for 'existing web sites'. This translates into getting full-support editing support for html and other web related file formats, and for opening a 'flat view' as a separate project of any folder with full Lua and Web type file support, including your own project or cluster of projects, the WoW Interface or other folders, or other locations. This also translates to allowing a multi-project environment where you can potentially edit your AddOn website or other related site to your development or support in the same IDE that you are editing your AddOns, which for some should enhance productivity greatly. Support is also included for the automatic Web Project mini-webhost, so you can run the changes locally before deploying. You can use any arbitrary existing folder, ftp, http address as an existing site. This feature also allows folders, like from the WoW Tool Kits, to be added as a project on demand, and browsed inside the project explorer. And starting with AS WoW 2010, allows both modern Lua editing and viewing as well as FrameXML .xml files to be viewed in a designer window letting you see what they look like right there.

; What Works

Updated Support:

* [[AddOn Studio for WoW documentation]] - getting started, details for installation and setup

* [[AddOn Studio for WoW history]] - effective release history with changes and notes

* [[WoWBench]] - WoWBench WoW Lua run-time simulation, including events, frames