Single Player vs MMO RPG

A single player RPG should be deep and must give you an experience where you feel like the hero of the story.

A MMO RPG should be easy to get into provide multitudes of ways for you to easily play with your friends and if you don't have any help you make them.

The experience of the MMO RPG should all be about the common shared experience of accomplishing deeds WITH other people.

dotnet and mysql

The new dotnet connectors for MySQL got released a couple of weeks ago.

So I took them out for a test drive.

The installation was easy and painless so was connecting to a DB.

The only issue was using the MySQL connectors as a data provider in a SqlDataSource, the code generated by the system was MS SQL centric, but no biggie just take out all the "[" and "]" from your queries.

I haven't tried it out on LINQ yet, but will get to it.

It works just fine on my localhost and I've just deployed it on my own server for deployment testing.

If you don't want to install the connectors on the host, like usual you need to leave the dlls in the bin folder on your website.

In addition to that you need to change the web.config to do this.

<system.data>
<DbProviderFactories>
<add name="MySQL Data Provider" invariant="MySql.Data.MySqlClient" description=".Net Framework Data Provider for MySQL" type="MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlClientFactory, MySql.Data, Version=5.2.2.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=c5687fc88969c44d" />
</DbProviderFactories>
</system.data>

If the deployment still doesn't work db wise you might need to set the application to full trust instead of medium trust.

Remember to get the Version as in "Version=5.2.2.0" correct to your connector.

That's about it.

I am suck a geek but....

MUST PLAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Uncle Hamster's Barcamp Powerpoint

Here you go:-

[LINK]CLICK HERE

I don't know how useful this will be for anyone else, I memorized 90% of what I wanted to say and used the slides as reminders.