Not long ago I wrote a blog post about Responsive Pivot Headers in Universal Windows Platform apps. Paul responded to this post asking how to change the background of the selected item, just like the example I posted on top of the post. It's a great question and I'm sorry I didn't cover this part so the pivot looks more like the example image. An omission I want to correct with this blog post.

These days JSON is used a lot. For storing data, for storing settings, for describing other JSON files, and often for transporting information between server and client using DTOs (Data Transfer Objects). Recently I was monitoring the data transferred from one of my own Web API controllers to a mobile app. I discovered the amount of data transferred was way more then expected. This inspired me try to reduce the size of the transferred data. In this and following blog posts I will describe the different options you can use and combine. You can download the source code at the end of my article.