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 what was in it. Using the Event Viewer you can...

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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 resolution. I found a registry setting however...