Last week Gill Cleeren started a new Windows 8 article series in which he's discussing the options you have to connect your Windows 8 apps to services.
The second part from the series was just published, read it here:
From the author:
In the first article of this series, we looked at how Windows 8 applications can work in general with services. We saw that the way that Windows 8 apps communicate with a service layer, is similar to how we performed the communication in Silverlight. Without a local database, Windows 8 apps need to talk to a service layer for all their relational data needs. Service communication is asynchronous, but instead of having to write a callback, in Windows 8, we can work with the async/await pattern. Once the data is available locally, we can use it in data binding scenarios.
We’ve seen how communication with ASMX and WCF services is done. Let’s know look at some other common types of services: REST, oData and RSS.
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