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

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...