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I am programming for Visual Studio 2011 so I am forced to use HttpClient . I need to retrieve some JSON data from the web, but I guess I need to set the content to "json data" or something because I always get strange characters when using only this code: HttpClient client = new HttpClient(); var response = client.Get("http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/users"); var content = response.Content.ReadAsString(); So how can I set the content or what should I do to get the correct data ? edit: Output: something like this: ������ svick The problem is that the response is compressed and HttpClient does

There are scenarios where you want your application to accept invalid SSL certificates (testing environment/ self signed certificates etc). In the .NET world one would use the ServerCertificateValidationCallback class to do so. Unfortunately the class doesn't exist in a WinRT context. I need to consume a Web API using WinRT which is hosted on a server without a valid ssl certificate. How do you accept invalid ssl certificates in WinRT using the HttpClient class or any other appropriate class. Any help or alternatives would much appreciated. in silverlight, it wasn't allowed. I haven't seen

I know that Metro on both platforms shares a common “look and feel” and that WinRt makes use of XAMLand C# (or VB.NET) like Silverlight does on Windows Phone 7. However I also know that WinRT is not Silverlight. Therefore what is the process of creating an app that will work on both a Windows 8 tablet and a Windows 7 (or 7.5) Phone? How close is WinRt to Silverlight? Despite certain people in Microsoft claiming it will only require changing a couple of lines of code... The only possible answer to how difficult it will be to port an app is IT DEPENDS! What does the phone app do? How much of

I am trying to replicate the Windows Phone Ui in an AngularJS app. Here is an example of what a Windows Phone Ui looks like. Infinite Swipe One interesting thing about it is the panels are infinitely swipe-able. You can keep swiping and end up back at the first panel. To achieve the infinite swipe, I duplicate the first and last panels and add them before and after the original panels like this: If you swipe to a copied panel (like "3" or "1"): you are redirected to the real panel immediately after the swipe finishes. This happens without the user even knowing because there is no animation.

I am trying to use OpenSSL in my metro application. I created a C++ WinRTComponent and have openssl files under this component However, when I try to compile the project, I got the following error: D8048: cannot compile C file 'openssl\applink.c' with /ZW option Anyone can tell me how should I resolve this problem to get my project to compile? Please let me know if you need any other info to help me. Thanks, The error message is exactly what it says it is - VC++ does not support C++/CX extensions - enabled with /ZW compiler switch - in files compiled as C (which kinda makes sense, since those

Related to another question on Superuser , I'm trying to run a Metro based application from the command-line. According to a comment on my superuser question, I could maybe find an answear on a PowerShell command or script. I already tried but found anything on any internet reference about PowerShell and Windows 8... So, there is some specific way/command to call and run a Metro-style application from a PowerShell command on Windows 8? There is no direct way to do this but there are a couple indirect ways. vsdebuglaunchnotify, which comes with Visual Studio, can be called from PowerShell. You