Same repository to be used by Windows phone application and a desktop WPF application

Question

Communication between a desktop application and a web application

suggested using a service. What specifically can be used by both WPF and WP app? WCF services are consumed easily by WPF, but not so easily by WP app:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/myamama/archive/2014/06/24/workaround-to-adding-service-reference-to-windows-phone-8-1-runtime-app.aspx

I wouldn't like to use it like that, with the suggested workaround.

I saw in Visual Studio that I can add azure mobile service reference to both WP and WPF. Would this then be the way to go, to use common repository with both applications?

Answer 1

Honestly, world is shifting towards using REST services. We, for instance, create a web api mvc application and put the logic there. Then, in projects that are clients of these services, we use RestSharp library (really good wrapper over webclient) to query our web api services in the same time knowing that restsharp will translate our models (objects) to json and the other way arround.