Before reading this, refresh your memory of Joel Spolsky's wonderful post on the Law of Leaky Abstractions. After determining it was possible to write a replacement HttpClient for WP8.1 Silverlight, I wanted to go a bit deeper and propose…
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Dealing with a "protocol violation" on WP 8.1
In my last post, I discussed how Windows Phone and Store apps will refuse to parse HTTP responses (namely headers) that do not strictly follow RFC2616. After a few weeks of waiting for Mashape to fix their responses, I thought…
WP8 Debugging for Fun and ... Profit?
Since I lost several hours on this today, I thought I'd quickly share my experience. There were very few results for the inital terms I searched for so perhaps this may help someone in the future. Laziness I've been working…