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NuGet Package Restore Issues
We’ve received several reports that our NuGet packages broke the NuGet package restore feature. In this post, I’ll explain what the issue is, how you can work around it, and finally how we plan on fixing this issue in the long term. The problem and solution Microsoft.Bcl.Build and Microsoft.Bcl.Compression require custom target files, which do not work well with NuGet’s package restore feature. The easiest way to fix the package restore issues is by checking in any .targets files that are stored under the packages directory. What’s package restore? When you add a NuGet package to your proj...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...