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Using async/await with WebClient in Windows Phone 8 (or: TaskCompletionSource saves the day)

Posted by Akkiraju Ivaturi in Resources on Jan 28, 2013

Tags: Aync/await, WebClient, Windows Phone 8

When you share code between Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8, you can use async/await to code against asynchronous APIs, which is a nice step in the right direction.

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When you share code between Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8, you can use async/await to code against asynchronous APIs, which is a nice step in the right direction. However there are Windows Phone APIs that do not support async/await yet. Probably the most annoying to date is the WebClient (which in Windows 8 has been replaced by a better API called HttpClient).

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