Async await in Windows Phone web access APIs

Question

Is there support for the async/await pattern in WP8?

I need to get XML from a web-based API and it looks like that WebClient or WebRequest

Answer 1

There is some support for WP8 in the Microsoft.Threading.Tasks.Extensions.Phone.dll provided as part of the Microsoft.Bcl.Async NuGet package described in this blog post.

In particular, it includes WebClient.DownloadStringTaskAsync.