Discord.Net Installation

Discord.Net is distributed through the NuGet package manager; the most recommended way for you to install this library. Alternatively, you may also compile this library yourself should you so desire.

Supported Platforms

Discord.Net targets .NET 6.0 and .NET 5.0, but is also available on older versions, like .NET Standard and .NET Core; this still means that creating applications using the latest version of .NET (6.0) is most recommended. If you are bound by Windows-specific APIs or other limitations, you may also consider targeting .NET Framework 4.6.1 or higher.

Warning

Using this library with Mono is not supported until further notice. It is known to have issues with the library's WebSockets implementation and may crash the application upon startup.

Installing

Release builds of Discord.Net will be published to the official NuGet feed.

Experimental/Development

Development builds of Discord.Net will be published to our MyGet feed. The MyGet feed can be used to run the latest dev branch builds. It is not advised to use MyGet packages in a production environment, as changes may be made that negatively affect certain library functions.

Labs

This exterior branch of Discord.Net has been deprecated and is no longer supported. If you have used Discord.Net-Labs in the past, you are advised to update to the latest version of Discord.Net. All features in Labs are implemented in the main repository.

Create a new solution for your bot
In the Solution Explorer, find the "Dependencies" element under your bot's project
Right click on "Dependencies", and select "Manage NuGet packages"
In the "Browse" tab, search for Discord.Net
Install the Discord.Net package

Create a new project for your bot
Add Discord.Net to your *.csproj

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">

  <!--
  The following may differ depending on the latest version of 
  .NET Core or Discord.Net.
  -->

  <PropertyGroup>
    <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
    <TargetFramework>net6.0</TargetFramework>
  </PropertyGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
    <PackageReference Include="Discord.Net" Version="3.13.0" />
  </ItemGroup>

</Project>

Compiling from Source

In order to compile Discord.Net, you will need the following:

Using Visual Studio

Visual Studio 2019 or later.
.NET 5 SDK

The .NET 5 workload is required during Visual Studio installation.

Using Command Line

.NET 5 SDK

Additional Information

Installing on Unsupported WebSocket Platform

When running any Discord.Net-powered bot on an older operating system (e.g. Windows 7) that does not natively support WebSocket, you may encounter a PlatformNotSupportedException upon connecting.

You may resolve this by either targeting .NET Core 2.1 or higher, or by installing one or more custom packages as listed below.

Targeting .NET Core 2.1
Custom Packages

Download the latest [.NET Core SDK].
Create or move your existing project to use .NET Core.
Modify your <TargetFramework> tag to at least netcoreapp2.1, or by adding the --framework netcoreapp2.1 switch when building.

Install or compile the following packages:
- Discord.Net.Providers.WS4Net
- Discord.Net.Providers.UDPClient (Optional)
  - This is only required if your bot will be utilizing voice chat.

Configure your DiscordSocketClient to use these custom providers over the default ones.

* To do this, set the `WebSocketProvider` and the optional
`UdpSocketProvider` properties on the [DiscordSocketConfig] that you
are passing into your client.

using Discord.Providers.WS4Net;
using Discord.Providers.UDPClient;
using Discord.WebSocket;
// ...
var client = new DiscordSocketClient(new DiscordSocketConfig 
{
    WebSocketProvider = WS4NetProvider.Instance,
    UdpSocketProvider = UDPClientProvider.Instance,
});

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