How to start

How to start using L2dotNET

Requirements

• Visual Studio Community 2015
• .NET Framework 4.6.1 (included in Visual Studio 2015)
• MySQL Server 5.7 or higher

How to run?

1. First you need to get the latest codebase from our Github repository.
2. Once you have the files all you need to do is build all the projects.
3. You can copy the binary files built in the GameService and the LoginService bin folders to a new location.
4. Then simply run the sql script that you will find in the datapack/sqlscripts folder in the project.
5. Unzip the html.rar file in the project directory.
6. Now open and edit the database connection strings in the file "connectionStrings.config" (located on both L2dotNET.GameService and L2dotNET.LoginService projects).
7. Last but not least if you want your server to be online change the host and authhost ip addresses to your external ip.

How to debug?

1. Open the L2dotNET solution on Visual Studio (L2dotNET.sln file)
2. Right click on Solution => Under Common Properties => Startup Project
3. Select "Multiple startup projects:"
4. Set L2dotNET.GameService and L2dotNET.LoginService to "Start" on Action column
5. Now just press "Start" to Debug (or F5 keyboard shorcut)