HttpWebRequest synchronous on Windows Phone 8

Question

In order to design / reuse a library usable both for WPF apps, Windows Phone 8 apps and later Windows 8 / RT apps, we need to make some HttpWebRequest call, preferably synchrono

Answer 1

The HttpWebRequest use UI thread to process a request, don't ask me why.

So if you try to wait a result by lock the UI thread, you will get a deadlock condition, because you lock UI thread until request is not complete and request will not be complete while UI thread is locked.

Answer 2

Maybe you cloud use the Result property of Task. It works on .NET 4.0/4.5 and Windows Phone 8.