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Portable HttpClient for .NET Framework and Windows Phone - BCL Team Blog. Many of you told us you want HttpClient for Windows Phone.

Portable HttpClient for .NET Framework and Windows Phone - BCL Team Blog

In this post, Alok Shriram, a Program Manager on the .NET Framework team, will talk about an important announcement of ours. –Immo Today we are announcing our Beta release of the portable version of HttpClient, the modern networking API. The HttpClient library is a set of APIs for .NET which provide a flexible and extensible way to access all things exposed through HTTP. This release of HttpClient adds support for the following platforms: .NET framework 4.0Windows Phone 7.5 and higherPortable class libraries HttpClient is a part of .NET Framework 4.5 and Windows Store apps that provides developers an extremely easy way to connect with services across the internet including REST-based services.

In order to get some content from a web server say www.contoso.com we can write the following simple lines of code HttpClient httpClient = new HttpClient();string responseBodyAsText = await httpClient.GetStringAsync(“www.contoso.com”); Windows phone API Quickstart - CheatSheet. Peterhuene/sqlite-net-wp8. Cheat Sheet for Windows Phone Modern UI Design. Cheat Sheet for Windows Phone Modern UI Design 1/2/2013| Tags: windows-phone Please, tell us what you think about this news by voting by WindowsPhoneGeek An interesting Windows Phone design sheet where you will find: - Different resolutions on Windows Phone 7 and WP8 - All types of logos and images to include in your application with different sizes, - The different types of tiles, - The accent colors, - The icons available with Segoe UI Symbol font Download Cheat Sheet for WP design here.

Cheat Sheet for Windows Phone Modern UI Design

TechPreacher/WP8-Joystick-UserControl. What's new in Windows Phone SDK 8.0. In addition to native development, Direct3D is being added to the family of Windows Phone technologies.

What's new in Windows Phone SDK 8.0

This means that for the first time, a Direct3D-based PC game can share much of its code base with a phone version, and developers can use state-of-the-art middleware tools and engines that power the industry’s biggest game titles to develop games for Windows Phone. Windows Phone 8: Localization. With Windows Phone 8 the number of markets where users can get apps and games has been increased to a whopping 191 [ 1 ]. And even with Windows Phone 7.8, by the time of writing 95 markets are available [ 2 ]. These are quite impressive numbers compared to the opportunities we had when Windows Phone was released initially. Naturally now topics like localization become more and more interesting even for smaller apps, to stimulate customers' interest outside the English-speaking world. Windows Phone supported this from the beginning, however the tooling was somewhat inferior to what we were used to from other Microsoft platforms.

In Windows Phone 8, Microsoft has improved the developer experience for localization and made it significantly more comfortable to translate your applications to different languages. Globalization vs. "Globalization is the process of designing and developing a software product that functions in multiple cultures/locales. " Getting Started. Windows Phone Development Tutorials, Articles, Windows Phone Dev News, Videos, Resources, Samples, windows phone app reviews, marketplace browser. WindowsPhoneGeek - Windows Phone Development Tutorials, Articles, Windows Phone Dev News, Videos, Resources, Samples, windows phone app reviews, marketplace browser.

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