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Introduction

DAIDE .Net Framework is a basic framework for developing bots that can play Diplomacy, using the DAIDE protocol for communication between bots and/or human players.

The .Net Framework allows bots that are written in any .Net language to easily connect to a DAIDE server.

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Compatibility

The SDK is currently only available for .Net 2.0 due to heavy use of generics. The included example bots have been tested to work against David Norman's DAIDE server, build date May 7, 2006.

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Version History

Version 0.8
First version released via SourceForge. Also the first version that uses .Net 2.0
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Requirements

The minimum requirements in order to develop a bot is to download the .Net Framework Version 2.0 Software development kit. This can be downloaded by itself from Microsoft.

The recommended way of developing bots is to download a version of Visual Studio Express. They are free, and include the .Net Framework SDK, as well as large help files. They are also available from Microsoft. The C# edition of Visual Studio Express was used to build the DAIDE .Net Framework.

The bot user needs to download the .NET Framework Version 2.0. This is either available via Windows Update (not a required download), or it can be downloaded separately from Microsoft (the .NET Framework Version 2.0 Redistributable Package).

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License

The framework is licensed using the MIT license. For more information, see the Open Source Initiative

Copyright © 2004-2006 Fredrik Blom

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