Dawn of Light

No idea on the .net version.
2008 on the visual c#

I doubt this is it but make sure your .net version is set to 2.0 properties of each project.

Unless you modified the project this should be set correctly.

Do you run from the release or debug directory? If you copy files do you copy all the files?

When you get the crash popup is there anything printed in the shell window, any progress indications ... like starting server, etc.

It's using 3.5

this thread is my favorite !

And I run the server from the Release folder.

I'm not sure why your projects are set to 3.5, can you change them to 2.0 and re-build all?

If it doesn't work I'd really like to know if the console window says anything. Did it include the first step then crash, or is the window completely blank.

Blank window then crash.

It has to be .net related if it can't even get to the first print. Try .net 2.0

You claim to have grabbed this from SVN but if you look at the gameserver project file in SVN

https://dolserver.svn.sourceforge.net/s ... ver.csproj

<OldToolsVersion>2.0</OldToolsVersion>
<TargetFrameworkVersion>v2.0</TargetFrameworkVersion>


It's clearly set to use 2.0 and not 3.0. So why the change?

Switched them all to 2.0, same problem.

Another thing, I can't really read what it says before it closes, but it says something about exception.

Grab the DOL source code from https://dolserver.svn.sourceforge.net/s ... dolserver/ and compile it. If that doesn't work then we can try and find out why, but at this point there is no real way to know.

Funny thing is I've never done source code.

What am I susposed to do with it? It doesn't give me anything to DL or to copy,just give links that end up just bringing me to ...

I'm using a old core, which is modified a lot. The tortise svn doesn't allow me to update it or anything like that.

This is not the SVN.

I invite you to read a c# book, you really lack some basis.

Never did learn anything about c#,just jumped right in.

Funny thing is I've never done source code.

You've completely lost me FF. You say you built the application, you say your running from the release folder, but you've never done source code? Where did you get the code you're trying to compile from then?

You use tortoise SVN and that URL to get the latest and you build it. Where by chance did you get the code your working with now?

You're beyond DOL support at this time, you need to learn to use the tools and if you downloaded something from somewhere and it doesn't work you need to go to that place and ask for support.