Cruel-WoW-Launcher | C# | WPF | .NET FRAMEWORK 4.6.1 | Visual Studio 2019

Cruel WoW Launcher for OMGhixD#2839

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How to setup the launcher

1. Pull the source

2. Upload the content of Cruel WoW Launcher/wwww to your webserver for example in https://cruel-wow.com/launcher but could be any folder name

3. Open and edit the uploaded Launcher.xml

   • Change remote_path="http://localhost/cruel-launcher" to path on your webserver where the content of www folder you uploaded for example https://cruel-wow.com/launcher ?

4. You will need Visual Studio Community 2019 with .NET desktop development

5. Open Cruel WoW Launcher/Cruel WoW Launcher.sln

6. Go to Project -> Cruel WoW Launcher Properties -> Settings

7. In the Value column add the link to your Launcher.xml for example https://cruel-wow.com/launcher/Launcher.xml but you could upload the file anywhere on web just make sure its public and you can edit it later

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How to push new client updates

1. Upload new or modified files in the launcher folder specified by the remote_path in your Launcher.xml

   • For example regular files goes in https://cruel-wow.com/launcher/patches
   • For example HD Graphics files goes in https://cruel-wow.com/launcher/patches_hd

    ! Please note that the "patches" and "patches_hd" folders follows the original paths as in the World of Warcraft folder
    meaning that if you want to add a new file to be downloaded in "World of Warcraft/Data/enUS/realmlist.wtf" then you have to upload it in
    "https://cruel-wow.com/launcher/patches/Data/enUS/realmlist.wtf" or the "patches_hd" folder if you are uploading hd graphics files.
   

2. Edit Launcher.xml

   • Increase or decrease the client_version="1"

3. Save Launcher.xml and done.

Now the next time the players starts the launcher they will be requested to update the client.

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How to change news

1. Open and edit the uploaded Launcher.xml

    <News enable="true">
        <Image>https://github.com/CyberMist2/MyPublicRepo/blob/master/Layer%2010.png?raw=true</Image>
        <Article>https://github.com/CyberMist2/MyPublicRepo/raw/master/Article.rtf</Article>
        <Date>15 August 2020</Date>
        <ReadMore>https://www.cruel-wow.com/en/news/5</ReadMore>
    </News>

2. Explanation
   • The Image tag holds the url of the news header image
   • The Article tag holds the url of the news Article.rtf
   • The Date tag holds the news date
   • The ReadMore tag holds the link when you press the Read more button on your launcher