Creating a Web Service Data Source
In this section, I discuss how you can build a web service data source. The web service data source enables you to bind a ListView control to a remote web service. You can use the data source to both retrieve and modify data.
You can use the web service data source, for example, to retrieve a list of products from a catalog of products stored in a database on a remote website. That way, when the catalog of products is updated, your Windows Store app will display the latest products.
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When working with Ajax, I strongly recommend that you take advantage of the free Fiddler2 tool to help debug failed Ajax requests. You can download Fiddler2—which works great with Windows 8—from http://fiddler2.com.
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