Http Client Protocol Issues (and other fun stuff I support)

When you have multiple projects in a solution (for example a Phone and Windows Store app) and you need to add a reference using nuget for each of them there are two methods you can choose from.  You can use the command line using the Package Manager...

Hey all… Thanks for attending the Windows Azure Mobile Services Troubleshooting talk! Here are the links I promised: Windows Azure Mobile Services forum Windows Azure Mobile Services Videos, Code Samples and Tutorials REST interface and others Postman...

I needed to access a stored procedure in the same database but for a different schema and call it from a server side script in Windows Azure Mobile Services, however I was getting this error: Error occurred executing query:  “Error: [Microsoft][SQL...

Just a quicky! If you are building a PhoneGap app using the preview bits of Windows Azure Mobile Services and you get this error: “Login is only supported from http:// and https:// URLs. Please host your page in a web server” you need to include the cordova...

I struggled with getting Fiddler to work with the emulators shipped with Eclipse.  Here is a quick reference for you to get Fiddler installed so you can debug HTTP and HTTPS traffic. Install and configure Fiddler Install Fiddler from this link: http...

A nice touch to your blog is to have a link to copy the code you have entered.  Another great feature is to have your code colored as it would be in Visual Studio.  There a couple of ways you can do this.  Here is how I prefer to do it...

I needed a script to load a database with dummy items.  I created a Scheduler script with a simple loop to insert 1000 items into my table.  I found that when I ran this script it would kick off and seemingly never complete.  What was worse...

Using Push Notifications for my Windows Store app I needed to debug what message was being received for my Tile Notifications.  The payload however was just a hex blob and THAT wasn’t too useful.  Here is what I did to find the payload and see...

We document how to send push notifications using Mobile Services fairly well.  You can use the wns object and push the notification.  This is documented here: Get started with push notifications in Mobile Services   Push notifications to...

Hey all! Check out this blog for more Windows Store and Windows Phone developer issues! http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wsdevsol/

Just a quick post in case you run up against this issue. You can use a subset of ATL Library code in your Windows Store app.  You may run into errors with validation when compiling or when running the Windows App Certification Kit (WACK) tool. If...

I had a customer issue that I thought I would share in the event you run into this issue (it may save you some heartburn). Here is the error: The "Vbc" task failed unexpectedly. System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80004005): Unable...

I was helping a customer with a problem they were encountering when trying to build a package for submission to the Windows App Store.  The error was: “The package contains a Debug framework reference”.  To make a long story short the solution...

I have an old (circa 2007) Dell Inspirion 1521 laptop and wanted to get a better Video driver installed for Windows 8. I found a Vista 64 bit driver on the Dell site that seems to work very well (compared to the generic drivers): http://www.dell.com/support...

These codes are hex representations of the underlying WinINet error codes. You can use calc to translate the code from hex to decimal and then look up that error here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/193625 To use calc bring up the calculator by...

I answered a couple of certificate questions in the C# Windows Store applications forum that you all may find useful: Provide Client side certificate: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winappswithcsharp/thread/0d005703-0ec3-4466-b389...

Here! http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/faq

In desktop applications and services we frequently take System.Net traces to diagnose issues using the HttpWebRequest class, HttpListener, sockets, smpt etc… (and now the HttpClient classes).  We traditionally use the application configuration file...

Moved to our new blog here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wsdevsol/archive/2012/10/04/walkthrough-creating-an-iis-server-to-use-with-wns-push-notifications-and-windows-store-apps.aspx

I was anxious to see what real memory usage would look like on my low end netbook. It was better than Windows 7! Less than 500M. One problem I had was the native resolution of my netbook is1024X600 and the will not load Windows Store applications at that...

I needed a simple WildCard Extension to remove a header and could not find one. This needs a little more error checking code but can get the job done. If you use it and add some enhancements or find problems, let me know and I will tune up the example...

If you build a WebBrowser control based application you will notice that Geolocation does not work properly. You do not get the prompt to accept the website “wants to track your physical location”. Because you do not get that prompt, you cannot accept...

I see some horrible solutions for this out on the web. Most involve setting the proxy for the entire machine and then toggling it back off. Here is a class that will allow you to set it ONLY FOR THE PROCESS that the control is hosted in. You could call...

I had trouble installing this update this morning. I found that since I had installed the Windows 7.1 SDK as well, I had to first install Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Service Pack 1 Compiler Update for the Windows SDK 7.1 KB2519277. This seemed to allow...

OK, really not that secret. Basic Authentication headers are pretty simple. When the server returns 401 and the header: WWW-Authenticate: Basic. The server wants you to send the username and password in this format: jeff:mypassword and then encode...