Monthly Archives: July 2012

Windows 8 Release Date Announced

Microsoft has announced that the retail version of Windows 8 will be available to the public on 26 October 2012.

If you want to try Windows 8 before buying it you can always install the release preview which can be found here for free.

UPNP port forwarding – The easy way

From my experience I noticed that the NATUPnP library is pretty unstable when it comes down to UPNP (mostly refusing to work on some routers regarding if the router is UPNP enabled or not) I decided to make a simple walk-through to help people resolve these kind of issues and aid them in creating a program that manual port forwarding is not needed, at least for UPNP enabled routers.

So, let’s get started. First you need to download the Mono.Nat library which can be found here. When the download is complete extract the contents of the .zip file anywhere you like.

In order to be able to take advantage of the library we need to locate the file we have extracted and add it as a reference to our project then import it in your project using

Now it’s time for some coding.