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HttpClient: How to Remove Charset From Content-Type Header

I was writing a client library for one online service and faced a situation where I had to remove the charset definition from the Content-Type header. It was like the content type was an application/json or the response was a 415 "Unsupported media type." I was using the HttpClient class to communicate with the service and without any additional effort charset doesn't go away. Here is how I got the charset definition away from the Content-Type header.

Problem

My problematic code was similar to the code shown here.

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Implementing INotifyPropertyChanged

This is a short post about how to implement INotifyPropertyChanged without using any advanced tooling. I have some small UWP applications where I'm using MVVM to separate presentation and logic. Here is how I use INotifyPropertyChanged with a base class for multiple view models.

First, one's introduction to INotifyPropertyChanged comes usually through some existing view model. The interface is used to communicate to the view that some properties in the view model have changed. Take a look at thePropertyChanged event and theNotifyPropertyChanged method (this method is not part of the interface).