Enable Windows 8 App(HTML) to make XHR request to service hosted in different domain
Introduction In this small article we are going to learn how to enable our windows 8 app to make a XHR request to service hosted in different domain(e.g Web API hosted in some virtual machine and app in running in my local machine). It seems simple and yes the solution is also simple and straight forward, since I'm new to Win8 app development it took time to understand the things. Lets define the problem. Problem First thing is I have two solutions one is Win8 javascript app solution and another one is service solution I have used Web API for it. Now, when i host my service in local IIS and access the service from my Win8 app it was working i.e i was able to get the data and response status was 200. But when i hosted the same service in some virtual machine(VM) a nd tried to access it was giving 404(Not found) error. SO whats the solution??? Solution The following is my XHR request, WinJS.xhr({ type: "POST", url: "url" dat