Download the source code for this articleThe focus of this series is giving you an overview of how Windows 8 applications can connect with the outside world. In the two previous parts, we’ve seen a number of service types that Windows 8 apps can connect with. Among others, we’ve seen how to communicate with WCF services, oData services, RSS endpoints and quite a few more. Further in this series, we are going to be exploring some more exotic types of services, including sockets.
Before we go that way though, we are going to take a look at some practical uses of (service) communication. In this part, we’re going to see how an application can download and upload files in the ...
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