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Markus
Markus

Reputation: 61

HttpClient for C# application

just starting to create an API to my a web application using the ASP.NET MVC4 Web API project template. http://www.asp.net/mvc/mvc4

No problems with the API so far, but I was about to write a small C# app to test the API.

Almost all the sample I can find is using the a class called HttpClient.

Where can I find the HttpClient and how do I install it?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 13775

Answers (4)

Antony Scott
Antony Scott

Reputation: 21998

It's on nuget, search for HttpClient

http://nuget.org/packages/System.Net.Http

Upvotes: 8

BlueM
BlueM

Reputation: 6888

Use WebRequest as described here 

        // Create a new 'Uri' object with the specified string.
        Uri myUri =new Uri("http://www.contoso.com");
        // Create a new request to the above mentioned URL. 
        WebRequest myWebRequest= WebRequest.Create(myUri);
        // Assign the response object of 'WebRequest' to a 'WebResponse' variable.
        WebResponse myWebResponse= myWebRequest.GetResponse();

If its a REST interface use RestSharp but you would need XSD first.

Upvotes: 3

ntziolis
ntziolis

Reputation: 10221

Rather than using the build in HttpClient class of the .NET framework which has a lot of issues when dealing with StatusCodes that are different than the expected ones. I recommend using a library called RestSharp.

It has become .NET Http/Rest client of choice, you can get it here: http://restsharp.org/

It is a very powerful library that is perfectly suited to do what you want.

Upvotes: 9

Rob Angelier
Rob Angelier

Reputation: 2333

If the class is not available from your code, then you could download it from a NuGet package, like described in the article:

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Introduction-to-HttpClient-4a2d9cee

or you can try to locate it inside the namespace: System.Net.Http

There is also an example for you wich should get you started!

Upvotes: 1

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