portable-class-library

So our enterprise is going the Xamarin route using Visual Studio. Going through all the documentation online showed that it should be Trivial to create WCF proxy client out of a web service and place it in the PCL. After Struggling and trying to figure out why I couldn't compile the PCL using the SLSVcUtil.exe generated classes or why the "Add Service Reference" menu item was missing i gave up and downloaded the sample projects. Turns out what I was missing all along was the target profile for the PCL. With Visual Studio 2015 + Xamarin, the default profile was set to 111. Profile 111 as it

I am building an Android/iOS xamarin forms app with a portable class library. I am looking for the best way to do this example inside the PCL project: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/456dfw4f(v=vs.110).aspx using System; using System.IO; using System.Net; using System.Text; namespace Examples.System.Net { public class WebRequestGetExample { public static void Main () { // Create a request for the URL. WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create ( "http://www.contoso.com/default.html"); // If required by the server, set the credentials. request.Credentials = CredentialCache

I have a WCF service that has a WSHttpBinding . Unfortunately in my PCL for some reason I cannot use WSHttpBinding . I can only use BasicHttpBinding . Is there a way that I can use a secure binding in a portable class library? I am using Xamarin. from Here I read about transport security: Transport Security When using transport security, the user credentials and claims are passed by using the transport layer. In other words, user credentials are transport-dependent, which allows fewer authentication options compared to message security. Each transport protocol (TCP, IPC, MSMQ, or HTTP) has its

I am unable to use the await keyword in my MvvmCross Windows Phone 7.1 project while using the Microsoft.Bcl "Microsoft BCL Portability Pack". I have posted the code for the sample project that I describe below on GitHub and the await error occurs on this line . When I try to build the third "Core" Windows Portable Class Library (PCL) that contains the FirstViewModel, I get the errors of: Type System.Threading.Tasks.Task<string> not awaitable under VS red squiggles, and Cannot await 'System.Threading.Tasks.Task<string>' when building. There are four projects in the solution: A Windows Portable

I have a Windows Phone 8.1 Class Library that I want to later add as a reference to a Windows Phone 8.1 App project. This ClassLibrary should be responsible for creating and managing its own database. I tried creating a new SQLiteConnection in my ClassLibrary, but it throws the following error: A first chance exception of type 'System.InvalidOperationException' occurred in SQLitePCL.DLL however, if I do the same in my MainApp everything works fine. So, is it possible to create a SQLite database in a ClassLibrary that's responsible for creating and managing it without any support from the