Windows® Phone 8 Unleashed

Consuming Local Web Applications

Changes to the Windows Phone Emulator have made developing apps that communicate with web applications on the local machine more difficult to set up. Prior to Windows Phone 8, apps could rely on the emulator resolving localhost to the underlying host operating system IP address. This allowed you to rapidly set up a WCF project that could be readily consumed by your Windows Phone app.

In Windows Phone 8, the emulator is unable to resolve WCF services on the host machine without adding a URL reservation and adding a port exception to the Windows firewall.

Perform the following steps to allow a Windows Phone app to consume a service on the host machine:

1. Assuming that you are working with IIS Express for local ...