Question

I am working on a WCF service that needs to receive parameters through a WebGet call. In order to do this, I realize I’m going to have to pass them through the URI template. In attempting to do this it became apparent that I lack a basic knowledge of URI formats.

I have tried to no avail to find a good tutorial or any kind of basic documentation about constructing URI’s.

For example, what does the ? mean and what are some other really fundamental URI elements?

Answer 1

UriBuilder and Uri RFC should be good starting points.

Sample from UriBuilder.Query

UriBuilder baseUri = new UriBuilder(
    "http://www.contoso.com/default.aspx?Param1=7890");
string queryToAppend = "param2=1234";

if (baseUri.Query != null && baseUri.Query.Length > 1)
    baseUri.Query = baseUri.Query.Substring(1) + "&" + queryToAppend; 
else
    baseUri.Query = queryToAppend;