HelloWorld

DSharpPlus Core Example: Hello World!

This example connects to the Discord gateway and responds to !ping. All the other examples will be loosely based off of this one. Ensure that you have the message intent enabled.

Creating a client

The client is the main entry point for the library. It is used to connect to the Discord gateway and send/receive Discord payloads.

// We instantiate our client.
DiscordConfiguration config = new()
{
    Token = token,
    // We're asking for unprivileged intents, which means we won't receive any member or presence updates.
    // Privileged intents must be enabled in the Discord Developer Portal.

    // TODO: Enable the message content intent in the Discord Developer Portal.
    // The !ping command will not work without it.
    Intents = DiscordIntents.AllUnprivileged | DiscordIntents.MessageContents
};

DiscordClient client = new(config);

// We can specify a status for our bot. Let's set it to "online" and set the activity to "with fire".
DiscordActivity status = new("with fire", ActivityType.Playing);

// Now we connect and log in.
await client.ConnectAsync(status, UserStatus.Online);

// And now we wait infinitely so that our bot actually stays connected.
await Task.Delay(-1);