TShock V4.5 to V5 Migration - Brief Intro & How to Update Plugins

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Published on October 24, 2022 9:40:46 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgghXJbue70

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Terraria (2011)

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Duration: 16:31

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Hey everyone, my name is Creyess and in today's video, we will be talking a bit about the changes from TShock V4.5 to V5, and I will also be showing you how to update the plugins as well! Here are some important links you may need:

.NET Upgrade Assistant: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/upgrade-assistant
OTAPI v2 to v3 Migration: https://github.com/SignatureBeef/Open-Terraria-API/wiki/%5Bupcoming%5D-6.-Upgrading-from-v2 - this goes over new method names, and some other stuff I didn't cover in the video
Download tShock Beta!: https://github.com/Pryaxis/TShock/actions
Download Visual Studio: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/
Download already-updated plugins (for v5): https://github.com/RenderBr/tShock-v5-plugins

00:00 - Intro (feel free to skip ahead)
01:12 - TShock v4.5 to 5 Changes
02:56 - Already updated V5 plugins (by yours truly)
04:35 - Obtaining TShock V5 & Dependencies for updating plugins
05:50 - Finding an old plugin to update
06:22 - Cloning repo
06:32 - Upgrading plugin to .NET Standard 2.0
07:45 - Changing plugin to x64 architecture
08:20 - Open plugin solution in Visual Studio
08:35 - Update & modify, and add dependencies
10:42 - Double check x64 build target (NOT x86!)
11:22 - Using Microsoft.Data.Sqlite (instead of Mono.Data.Sqlite)
12:15 - Updating API version, and deleting old references
12:40 - Updating TShock.Config to TShock.Config.Settings
13:10 - Fixing no "Color" method by adding Microsoft.Xna.Framework
13:23 - Talking about OTAPI.Tile
13:50 - Building & testing plugin (will it work??)
15:40 - Talking about bin folder & if the plugin requires external dependencies

Thanks for watching everyone! Hope this helped :D

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