Windows Phone 8 Missing C# Networking Classes?

Question

I am trying to write a Windows Phone 8 app in C# but I'm getting lots of 'are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?' errors. It seems Windows Phone 8 is missing many C# networking classes.

What can I do to fix this?

Answer 1

The HttpClient class is not included by default in Windows Phone development. It is available as a separate NuGet package though. Add a reference to that NuGet package and you should be good to go

• NuGet Package
• Article discussing it's exclusion from phone