HTTPClient Class - Asynchronous and Synchronous Usage

HttpClient 

HttpClient is actually available as a NuGet package that you can download today. But a lot of the simplicity of using HttpClient comes from the new language features of C# 5. Combine these two and you got a very simple way of requesting and posting data.


Example for Synchronous -GET:

      using (var client = new HttpClient())

                {

                    var response = client.GetAsync(this.EndPoint + apiParameters).Result;

                    if (response.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.OK || response.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.Found || response.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.Accepted)

                    {

                        //  performing a synchronous call

                        var responseContent = response.Content;

                        // synchronously reading the result

                        string responseString = responseContent.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;

                        return responseString;

                    }

                }

Example for Asynchronous -GET:

public async TaskGetAsync(string uri)

{

    var httpClient = new HttpClient();

    var response = await httpClient.GetAsync(uri);

    //throw an exception if not successful

    response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();

    string content = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();

    return await Task.Run(() => JsonObject.Parse(content));

}