Question

I’ve been converting a bunch of files from Coldfusion to C#, and all has been going swimmingly until now. I’m pretty much learning ColdFusion as I go, and I barely ever write in C# so I’m stuck here. Can anybody help explain how I would go about translating this chunk of code into C#?

<cfobject type="COM" action="Create" name="objServerXMLHttp" class="msxml2.ServerXMLHTTP.3.0">
<cfset objServerXMLHttp.open("POST", "http://URL", True , "Me.User", "Me.Password")>
<cfset objServerXMLHttp.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "text/xml")>
<cfset objServerXMLHttp.setRequestHeader("charset", "utf-8")>
<cfset objServerXMLHttp.send("#XMLRequest#")>
<cfset thread = CreateObject("java", "java.lang.Thread")>

For some background, I’m basically just taking info from a database, surrounding it with XML tags in a string, creating an XML file out of the string, and now here I am.

Answer 1

The direct translation is easy in C# 4.0 (VS2010) with the dynamic keyword:

        dynamic objServerXMLHttp = Activator.CreateInstance(Type.GetTypeFromProgID("msxml2.ServerXMLHTTP.3.0"));
        objServerXMLHttp.open("POST", "http://chrdevweb:8080/mellibase/webservice/rest", true, "Me.User", "Me.Password");
        objServerXMLHttp.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "text/xml");
        objServerXMLHttp.setRequestHeader("charset", "utf-8");
        objServerXMLHttp.send("#XMLRequest#");