Building your Mod

This page describes how to make your own custom modification using Visual Studio.

You're looking to create a mod for Nitrocid KS! That's great! Make sure that you have Visual Studio installed. Follow the steps to create your first mod.

Press Create a new project on Visual Studio homepage
Find Class Library and double-click it
Write your mod name, like in our example, MyFirstMod.
Make sure that .NET 8.0 is used. Press Create.
Right-click on Dependencies -> Manage NuGet Packages, find KS, and install it.
Once the package is installed, go to the Class1.cs source file
Write next to the class file : IMod and import the required namespace by using Nitrocid.Modifications;. You should see errors indicating that you have to implement the methods.
After implementation, you should see:
Remove all calls to NotImplementedException and set the minimum supported API version. Currently, we're at v3.0.25.437.
Now, implement everything as you wish. Once you're done, follow the steps on how to create a strong name signing key and sign your mod. Then, click on the Build menu and select Build Solution.
Once the solution is built, open the file explorer to the solution directory by right-clicking on the solution and selecting Open Folder in File Explorer.
Navigate to the output directory and copy the .dll file to KSMods under the %localappdata%/KS folder.
Open Nitrocid KS to test your mod. Ensure that modman list lists your mod.

You will have to turn on kernel modifications from the kernel settings. Navigate to General > Start kernel modifications on boot and turn it on.

You can also make use of the KSTemplates repository, which can be installed to Visual Studio using the dotnet new install path/to/KS.Templates.nupkg command.