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[#Preface]
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== Preface
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[#PreForeword]
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=== Foreword
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This book tries to give you a guide to start your own experiments into
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the wonderful world of Wireshark development.
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Developers who are new to Wireshark often have a hard time getting their development environment up and running.
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This is especially true for Windows developers, as a lot of the tools and methods used when building Wireshark are much more common in the UNIX world than on Windows.
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The first part of this book will describe how to set up the environment
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needed to develop Wireshark.
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The second part of this book will describe how to change the Wireshark
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source code.
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We hope that you find this book useful, and look forward to your comments.
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[#PreAudience]
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=== Who should read this document?
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The intended audience of this book is anyone going into the development of
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Wireshark.
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This book is not intended to explain the usage of Wireshark in general.
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Please refer the
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{wireshark-users-guide-url}[Wireshark User’s Guide] about Wireshark usage.
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By reading this book, you will learn how to develop Wireshark. It will
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hopefully guide you around some common problems that frequently appear for
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new (and sometimes even advanced) developers of Wireshark.
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[#PreAck]
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=== Acknowledgements
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The authors would like to thank the whole Wireshark team for their
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assistance. In particular, the authors would like to thank:
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* Gerald Combs, for initiating the Wireshark project.
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* Guy Harris, for many helpful hints and his effort in maintaining
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the various contributions on the mailing lists.
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* Frank Singleton from whose `README.idl2wrs` <<ChDissectIdl2wrs>> is derived.
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The authors would also like to thank the following people for their
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helpful feedback on this document:
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* XXX - Please give feedback :-)
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And of course a big thank you to the many, many contributors of the
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Wireshark development community!
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[#PreAbout]
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=== About this document
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This book was developed by mailto:{wsdg-author-email}[Ulf Lamping],
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updated for VS2013 by mailto:{wsdg-author-email2}[Graham Bloice],
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and updated for later versions of Visual Studio by various contributors.
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It is written in AsciiDoc.
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[#PreDownload]
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=== Where to get the latest copy of this document?
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The latest copy of this documentation can always be found at
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{wireshark-developers-guide-url}.
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[#PreFeedback]
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=== Providing feedback about this document
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Should you have any feedback about this document, please send it to the
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authors through mailto:{wireshark-dev-list-email}[].
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