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Portable Compression and HttpClient Working Together
Today we’re happy to announce that we released two NuGet packages: Before we go into the details, let’s first take a look at why compression is particularly interesting for HttpClient. Compression and HttpClient We live in a world where we are permanently surrounded by devices, particularly smart phones. Apps that run on these devices are often not super useful in isolation; they require services to provide data and enhance their features. As a result many developers use the HttpClient class to access web resources such as REST services. Most service providers want to minimize the data that is bei...
Get /httpclient/rtm – 200 OK
As promised in our last blog post we’re releasing Microsoft.Net.Http as a stable NuGet package today. Yep, that’s right: You can finally start using the portable HttpClient 2.1 in production! As we’ve discussed in previous blog posts, HttpClient is a modern networking API which makes it easy to access any resource exposed through HTTP. The HttpClient API has been available in some versions of .NET for a while now. This NuGet package makes a standard set of HttpClient APIs available across a wider array of platforms, including Windows Phone 7.5 and higher, .NET Framework 4.0 and higher, and Windo...
Portable HttpClient is now available as RC
Three months ago we shipped the first preview of the portable HttpClient. Many of you wondered when we would ship the RTM version. Today, we’re happy to announce the first step towards an RTM: We shipped a release candidate (RC) of HttpClient (Microsoft.Net.Http package on NuGet) that includes all the bug fixes since the preview. New features To address some of the platform differences in a portable fashion, we’ve added new capability APIs. HttpClientHandler.SupportsUseProxy(): The existing HttpClientHandler.SupportsProxy property indicates whether both the UseProxy property and the Proxy propert...
Portable HttpClient is now available as RC
Three months ago we shipped the first preview of the portable HttpClient. Many of you wondered when we would ship the RTM version. Today, we’re happy to announce the first step towards an RTM: We shipped a release candidate (RC) of HttpClient (Microsoft.Net.Http package on NuGet) that includes all the bug fixes since the preview. New features To address some of the platform differences in a portable fashion, we’ve added new capability APIs. HttpClientHandler.SupportsUseProxy(): The existing HttpClientHandler.SupportsProxy property indicates whether both the UseProxy property and the Proxy propert...
Portable HttpClient is now available as RC
Three months ago we shipped the first preview of the portable HttpClient. Many of you wondered when we would ship the RTM version. Today, we’re happy to announce the first step towards an RTM: We shipped a release candidate (RC) of HttpClient (Microsoft.Net.Http package on NuGet) that includes all the bug fixes since the preview. New features To address some of the platform differences in a portable fashion, we’ve added new capability APIs. HttpClientHandler.SupportsUseProxy(): The existing HttpClientHandler.SupportsProxy property indicates whether both the UseProxy property and the Proxy propert...
Portable HttpClient is now available as RC
Three months ago we shipped the first preview of the portable HttpClient. Many of you wondered when we would ship the RTM version. Today, we’re happy to announce the first step towards an RTM: We shipped a release candidate (RC) of HttpClient (Microsoft.Net.Http package on NuGet) that includes all the bug fixes since the preview. New features To address some of the platform differences in a portable fashion, we’ve added new capability APIs. HttpClientHandler.SupportsUseProxy(): The existing HttpClientHandler.SupportsProxy property indicates whether both the UseProxy property and the Proxy propert...
DataTable using SignalR+AngularJS+EntityFramework
SignalR brought developers an easier way to build real-time, very responsive web applications. But, how does it play with other available technologies? I took a couple of days to implement a very common scenario needed in every Enterprise Application: A DataTable to do CRUD operations persisting changes on a database. My initial thought was this is going to be a trivial task, I have done DataTables a few times in the past. Then, I realized the real-time model with many concurrent users introduces a few challenges. Before going through details, here is a screenshot of what I accomplished: A DataTable where multi...
Package Manager Dialog vs. Package Manager Console, some differences!
One common misconception we see among NuGet users is that NuGet could only install/ update to the latest version of a package in VS. This is due to the fact that through 'NuGet Package Manager Dialog' we only show that latest (stable or prerelease) version of any package. But, NuGet provides the ability to install/ update to any specific version of a package through Package Manager Console. Let's see an example below on how to do this. Install a specific version of a package To bring up Package Manager Console in VS, go to View->Other Windows->Package Manager Console. You could use the highlighted drop...
Where else is NuGet used in Visual Studio?
All NuGet users are probably familiar with both the Manage NuGet Packages dialog and the Package Manager Console. These are the main user interfaces for installing and managing packages. However, NuGet is also used in a couple of more subtle places. Below are a few of them that I am aware of. With the exception of the New Project dialog, these dialogs/commands invoke NuGet through the well-documented MEF services that NuGet exports. I'm very happy to see various teams in Microsoft take advantage of NuGet to implement their own features. I expect even more widespread usage of NuGet in future versions of...