The Nexus Mod Manager (NMM) is a free and open source piece of software that allows you to download, install, update and manage your mod files through an easy to use interface. It integrates with the Nexus sites to provide you with a fast, efficient and much less hassled modding experience.

• 1-click download, 1-click install

  • One click on the site starts your download direct into NMM.
  • One click in the manager then installs the file into your game and activates it.
  • No faffing about with zip programs, no hassle.

• Built in download manager

  • The mod manager comes with full download pause and resume functionality.
  • Stop your downloads and start them again later from the same place.
  • Never receive an incomplete download again.

• Mod manager

  Enable or disable the files you would like loaded into your game through the easy to use mod management system, allowing you to try different configurations and profiles quickly and easily.

• Clean mod installs

  Files are installed cleanly and if a mod can't finish installing for any reason the mod manager will clean up the files correctly after itself

• Open source

  Completely free and completely open source, released under a copyleft GPL license, you can be sure that the mod manager is safe to use and free of adware, spyware and viruses

• No advertising

  The Mod Manager is completely free of advertisements

NMM is developed using the latest .Net Framework (currently 4.6) If you don't own a Visual Studio license you can download Visual Studio Community edition for free here: https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/vs-2015-product-editions.aspx

For further info check of official dev post on the Nexus forums: http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/1327971-start-here-and-faqs/

For coding conventions currently used by the NMM developers check here: http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/2815924-coding-conventions/

When the development environment is set you can simply follow this guidelines to push your edits:

1. Fork it!
2. Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-new-feature
3. Commit your changes: git commit -am 'Add some feature'
4. Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature
5. Submit a pull request :)