A managed Guild Wars Template Parser

I am currently working on a small project to help me organise my Guild Wars skill builds but I came across a problem, I had nothing to help me decode the templates and I found I had a gap in my knowledge when dealing with converting binary and base 64.

I found some source code long ago from GWFreaks however it was so old, messy and written in VB.NET that I really struggled to understand it. The last resort was a PHP based version of the template parser and a small snippet I found on a Code Guru forum. With this information I begun playing around and eventually began to build a greater understanding of what was involved.

Using the wiki guide on the Skill Template Format and the Equipment Template Format I finally built a set of objects to help encode and decode the templates.

You will find the details and the project files on the Template Parser project page

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