Hi guys,

I'm building a Open World Survival RPG in C# and I'm looking for advice on network libraries. I started out by rolling my own socket connections, but got a short way into it and thought "there must be existing libraries out there" and starting looking around. I came across RakNet relatively quickly and people say good things about it, so I decided to give it a try.

I grabbed the source and I've spent 4 hours trying to get the examples compiling. I followed the c# tutorial and ran into issues, such as the build failing due to missing folders. So I fixed that by creating the folders. Then there were files missing from the project. I found them and added them to the project. None of the generated files have any standard "using" clauses, so I add the required "using" clauses to the generated code. Now I'm stuck with build errors such as "Cannot implicitly convert type 'RakNet.Row' to 'RakNet.TableRow'" or "Cannot apply indexing with [] to an expression of type 'RakNet.SWIGTYPE_p_DataStructures__ListT_DataStructures__Table__Cell_p_t'"... the list goes on...

It seems like parts of the RakNet source are out of date or the c# source generated by swig is messed up somehow. Or perhaps the swig tutorial I followed isn't up to date?

This brings me to my questions:

1) Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong with RakNet, and is it salvageable?

2) Can anyone suggest a different networking library for use with C# for simple multiplayer (8 simultaneous players) which may be easier to get up and running?

3) Should I just go back to rolling my own?