Writing Web API Client Code for Multiple Platforms Using Portable Libraries

The Microsoft ASP.NET Web API Client Libraries make it easy to write .NET clients that interact with RESTful HTTP services. Unfortunately, until recently the Web API client libraries did not support all platforms. Because of this limitation, developers had to maintain different code, depending on the target platform. The new release of Microsoft ASP.NET Web API Client Libraries now comes with support for building portable libraries that target .NET 4.5, Windows Store and Windows Phone 8 applications. This support is built on the recently released portable HttpClient and the portable library support in Json.NET. Developers can now build a single portable library that can be used to consume Web APIs from Windows Phone and Windows Store apps as...(read more) ...