The Full Stack, Part 13: Synchronizing the Windows Phone Client with the WCF Service

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In this episode of The Full Stack, Jesse and Jon hook up client-server data synchronization and discuss some interesting problems they run into along the way. Highlights: <ul id="internal-source-marker_0.3983664223924279 <span>Jesse walks through the Windows Phone side, explaining how synchronization works when saving a new contact.<span>Jesse explains how to detect changes in network status, automatically synchronizing contacts added while offline as soon as a network connection is available.<span>Jon reviews the server-side API, shows how the API key is being passed in an HTTP header rather than a querystring argument, and walks through the process of submitting changes to the server.<span>Jon explains some of the interesting challenges he troubleshot on the server, including use of the new WCF ProcessingPipeline, catching WCF service exceptions, and use of Post Tunneling.<span>Jesse shows how to make sure your textbox bindings are updated when working with the Windows Phone Action Bar buttons. Show links: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.networkinformation.networkchange.networkaddresschanged(v=vs.95).aspx Detecting Network Status on Windows Phone 7 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee474212(v=VS.100).aspx WCF Data Service ProcessingPipeline documentation <img src="http://m.webtrends.com/dcs1wotjh10000w0irc493s0e_6x1g/njs.gif?dcssip=channel9.msdn.com&dcsuri=http://channel9.msdn.com/Feeds/RSS&WT.dl=0&WT.entryid=Entry:RSSView:4381552ea2d64ad692409f0801826ad9

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