HTTP GET request and XML answer

Question

I am new to C#, I need to send HTTP GET request and read answer. I am familiar with Java and easy can do it URLConnection class but I don't know in c#. Can anybody help ?

Answer 1

The simplest way is to use WebClient:

WebClient client = new WebClient();
string text = client.DownloadString(url);

(That's the synchronous form; it also supports asynchronous requests.)

For more control you might want to use HttpWebRequest.