I know Visual Studio doesn't offer Java support natively, but some people wrote what seem to be good extensions (like this: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=SamHarwell.JavaLanguageSupport ). Given that the extension can launch a debugger, maybe it would be configurable to launch a Minecraft client, like Eclipse does. Has anyone already done this? Is it possible at all? In the end, everything could be done via shell commands, and, theoretically, all the building and launching part are easy: just tell VS which command with which parameters it needs to feed the shell to queue the task (like building using this and that lib, and launching the test client). In my ignorance, I may be oversimplifying the problem.

You could probably get it to work, but it would be way more work than its worth. Just use Eclipse.

I don't know how to make it work. I would need hard directions on what is needed to make this work. I like Eclipse. Well, I don't hate it. But seeing there are 2 main alternatives, one being Eclipse, the other being IntelliJ, I thought a third wouldn't hurt.

1 hour ago, Is.M.L said:

I don't know how to make it work.

And likely, neither does anyone else.

 

Personally I'd rather use Eclipse for C# instead of Visual Studio, but that's not going to happen any time soon.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MarianLuparuMSFT.MinecraftModDeveloperPack dont know how up to date this is

10 hours ago, Is.M.L said:

like this: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=SamHarwell.JavaLanguageSupport )

This extension isn't up-to-date at all, so I'm not so sure how well it will work, but it doesn't work with the newest versions of Visual Studio (like 2017).

Thought I know there are some extensions available for VS Code which are up-to-date: Java Extendsion, Gradle Extension

 

For Gradle related things, it seems like you have to change the build.gradle file a bit: 

https://docs.gradle.org/current/dsl/org.gradle.ide.visualstudio.VisualStudioProject.html

https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/build/steps/build/gradle

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32592066/how-to-build-visual-studio-project-under-gradle

 

Thougt it seems to be that you can build Android Apps using VS, so maybe looking into the documentation on how to build Android Apps for VS might help as Android Apps are build using Gradle and Java.

1 hour ago, Bektor said:

This extension isn't up-to-date at all, so I'm not so sure how well it will work, but it doesn't work with the newest versions of Visual Studio (like 2017).

Thought I know there are some extensions available for VS Code which are up-to-date: Java Extendsion, Gradle Extension

 

For Gradle related things, it seems like you have to change the build.gradle file a bit: 

https://docs.gradle.org/current/dsl/org.gradle.ide.visualstudio.VisualStudioProject.html

https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/build/steps/build/gradle

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32592066/how-to-build-visual-studio-project-under-gradle

 

Thougt it seems to be that you can build Android Apps using VS, so maybe looking into the documentation on how to build Android Apps for VS might help as Android Apps are build using Gradle and Java.

This looks extremely promising! The latest build is failing at the moment, so I'll give it a couple days before installing, but this might be perfect. People from Forge should take a look at this, and maybe create one of those scripts, like .\gradlew vs, if this really is as good as it looks!