DownloadStringTaskAsync on WP7 hangs when retrieving Result
问题 I converted a bunch of WP7 code to use DownloadStringTaskAsync instead of DownloadStringAsync using the Async CTP SP1. It wasn't working so I boiled down my code a bunch and ended up with these 2 lines: var wc = new WebClient(); var result = wc.DownloadStringTaskAsync("http://www.weather.gov").Result; If I run this method with a console app on my windows machine. Its works as I expect and I get a string with the contents of weather.gov. If I run the same 2 lines in the constructor of App in a