public List <Message> GetMostRecent()
{
if (_simulateErrors)
{
throw new ApplicationException("Simulated network failure");
}
else
{
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("Began downloading");
var client = new WebClient();
var content = client.DownloadString("http://localhost:8080/Messages");
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("Download succeeded");
using (var r = new StringReader(content)) {
using (var xr = new XmlTextReader(r)) {
return(Message.ReadAllXml(xr).ToList());
}
}
}
}
