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...

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 hitting the Windows key and typing calc. Then Alt...

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-b389-663608fff053 Include Server certificate in manifest...

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 (appname.exe.config) to enable the tracing. ...

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...