Universal Windows® Apps with XAML and C# Unleashed

HTTP Requests

The Windows Runtime includes a Windows.Web.Http.HttpClient class for sending and receiving HTTP requests: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, or others. This is not to be confused with the System.Net.Http.HttpClient class, which is older and more limited. Interesting benefits of Windows.Web.Http.HttpClient are:

→ Its cache, cookies, and credentials are shared with Image, MediaElement, and WebView (within your app)

→ Cookies persist across runs of your app

→ It gives you a lot of control over caching

→ You can leverage HTTP prefetching to make Windows update your cache when your app isn’t even running

HttpClient works with HttpRequestMessages and HttpResponseMessages. It exposes GetAsync, PostAsync, PutAsync, and DeleteAsync methods, all of ...