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Welcome to the WCell wiki!

The goal of this wiki is to coalesce all the knowledge we have attained into a single reference source that is not only technically reliable, but also up-to-date and easily understandable. Most articles are still under construction.

If you are interested in running the WCell server package, check out the Basic Setup page.

WCell

The Packet Analyzer Project

The Packet Analyzer defines the structure of all known packets and enables anyone to make a WoW packet stream human-readable.

Join the community

Ask the WCell community, contact the developer team, get involved, stay around.

The WCell Team

The team, its members and how everyone is invited to play a part

Download via SVN

Learn where and how to checkout WCell

Basic Setup

Learn how to setup WCell

Configuration

Learn how to do configure WCell

Roles and Privileges explain how the different privileges and Roles of Users work

Administration

Learn how to administrate and control WCell

See AuthServer Commands on how to administer the AuthServer while running
Learn about Ingame Commands and other ways of controlling the game from within the game

Customization

Learn how to further customize the ingame world

Development

Learn more about the WCell code-structure and applied coding conventions.

Every Developer should have a basic understanding of the WCell API
The Developer Guide gives new (and old) developers an overview of the features and applied coding conventions during WCell development
The Coding Guide helps developers understand how to write clean code (not only for WCell)
Advantages of a Clean Codebase explains why clean code is so very important
Understanding WCell's Threading Strategy is a must for every WCell-developer
Write Addons in C# or write functional object-oriented code, using F#
Check Nobby's progress on Collision Detection
WCell utilizes Unit Tests to prevents bugs and allow a high level of Quality Assurance
Learn how to hook to WCell's Initialization-Routine during startup
WCell's Packet Analyzer allows everyone to define WoW Packet-structures, using XML and use that information to render log files correspondingly
WCell emphasizes Unit Testing to prevent bugs and allow a high level of Quality Assurance
WCell uses NHibernate for Database-access - Here are some information related to NHibernate-usage