When starting with UPnP development, some test projects, I initially started of with the Microsoft stack, as its already included in most Windows versions. But the documentation on the microsoft UPnP stack is so sparse, all examples I could find, were in C and then still only controlpoints, no devices. Hence I started using the Developer tools for UPnP (formerly by Intel). They contain a fully functional C# UPnP stack, and a code generator that generates a C stack. Just compile the C# stack and the resulting dll can be used from any (including VB) .NET language. Besides that the toolset contains a number of very usefull UPnP utilities.
The tools where initially available as the Intel UPnP tools, and after having disappeared from the Intel website for some time they have been relaunched as open source. Currently the stack is being maintained by Ylian Saint-Hilaire (Intel), and he does a good job at it (several bugfixes and improvements I submitted landed in the code quickly). Its a pitty that there isn’t a public forum for the UPnP tools.
This post is mostly about my experiences getting things up-and-running using the C# stack, which has its peculiarities, so here is what I learned; Continue reading →