May 2013
Intermediate to advanced
226 pages
4h 16m
English
HttpClient is a new .NET 4.5 class using the HTTP protocol, similar to WebClient or HttpWebRequest. A highlight of this class is the full support of Async.
In fact it's not such a novelty, since we already had it on the REST Starter Kit and the implementation of the .NET 4.0 We API.
The HttpClient class resides on the System.Net.Http namespace, which is a brand new .NET 4.5 namespace. Basically, we use HttpClient to create HTTP requests, manage the response, and process the response's content.
Some of the most interesting capabilities are: