WinRT vs. Silverlight - Part 7 - Making WebRequests - by @dotMorten

Posted by Kunal Chowdhury on October 7, 2011

In Silverlight and WPF you are probably used to using WebClient to perform downloads. This is a simple class for doing download/upload string or retrieving a response stream from the server. However, in Windows Runtime this client doesn't exists. Instead we have new a simple HttpClient to do much

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