System.Net.WebClient

Added in .NET Framework 1.1
This is derived from the System.Net.WebRequest class.
This class is a higher-level abstraction built on top of HttpWebRequest to simplify the most common tasks
Very basic method and uses simple GET requests

Create

string templateName = "templateName"; 
string returnText = ""; 

string restURL = "https:\\bettersolutions.com\ 

var request = (System.Net.HttpWebRequest)System.Net.WebRequest.Create(restURL); 
request.AutomaticDecompression = System.Net.DecompressionMethods.GZip; 
request.Method = "GET"; 
request.ContentType = "application/json"; 
request.CookieContainer = new System.Net.CookieContainer(); 
request.AllowAutoRedirect = true; 
request.UseDefaultCredentials = true; 
request.Timeout = (int)TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1).TotalMilliseconds; 

using (var reader = new System.IO.StreamReader(request.GetResponse().GetResponseStream(), System.Text.Encoding.UTF8, true)) 
{ 
     System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer js = new System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer(); 
     var objText = reader.ReadToEnd(); 
     returnValue = js.Deserialize(objText, typeof(ModelCoverProject.DiscTextJsonResponse)); 
} 

OpenRead

Dim objStream As System.IO.Stream 
Dim objStreamReader As System.IO.StreamReader 
Dim oWebClient As System.Net.WebClient 

objWebClient = New System.Net.WebClient 
objWebClient.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultNetworkCredentials 
objWebClient.Credentials = New System.Net.NetworkCredential(username, password, domain) 

objStream - objWebClient.OpenRead(sURL) 
objStreamReader = New System.IO.StreamReader(objStream) 

This method copies the existing Headers, Credentials, and method to the newly created WebRequest object.

public static void Main (string[] args) 
{ 
     System.Net.WebClient oWebClient = new System.Net.WebClient(); 
     oWebClient.Headers.Add ("user-agent", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET CLR 1.0.3705;)"); 
     Stream data = oWebClient.OpenRead (args[0]); 

     StreamReader reader = new StreamReader (data); 
    string s = reader.ReadToEnd (); 
    System.Console.WriteLine (s); 
    data.Close (); 
    reader.Close (); 
} 

DownloadString

public static string HttpGet(string uri) 
{ 
    string content = null; 
    System.Net.WebClient oWebClient; 
 
    oWebClient = new System.Net.WebClient(); 
    content = oWebClient.DownloadString(uri); 
 
    return content; 
} 

Methods

Properties