Netgear OVPN Configuration

A few months ago I bought a Netgear Nighthawk router (D7000v2), largely because I wanted a router that supported Open VPN so that I could connect up and use Remote Desktop etc when away from my office. I had previously set up something similar by using the Windows VPN server, but wanted something safer and more robust.

It all works pretty well out of the box, but there have been some interesting glitches.

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Xamarin.Forms Error CS0117

Now that I have completed the first release of Mobile DMX I thought would convert the project over from Xamarin Studio to Visual Studio. I wasn’t able to do this until recently because I have an “Indie Android” licence, which meant I had to use Xamarin Studio, but since MS have bought Xamarin I can now use Visual Studio (Xamarin Studio is deprecated), which is good.

Took a while, though. At first I was getting several hundred errors of the form

error CS0117: 'Resource.Attribute' does not contain a definition for 'mediaRouteSettingsDrawable'

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