Question

This is my first time working with a webservice and I tried looking up all the resources on the web but I wasn’t able to get it to work.

I have to use this XML in my windows phone application and I want the application to retrieve it when the user wants to. I know how to parse the XML but I am just not able to get the XML from the XML feed.

Answer 1

There are lots of tutorials for this type of problem available on the wider web.

For example, try the 3 line solution from: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/156610/WP7-WebClient-vs-HttpWebRequest

var client = new WebClient();
client.DownloadStringCompleted += (s, ev) => { responseTextBlock.Text = ev.Result; };
client.DownloadStringAsync(new Uri("http://www.sherdog.com/rss/news.xml"));