Question

Okay, before I go on, let me state that my background is in web scripting; so applications are very foreign to me. I know very little about .NET and I’ve been skating by on my limited knowledge.

Anyways, in my application, I have an OAuth httpRequest. The request itself works fine, it gets the data I need from the web API. However, the problem is that whenever I click the button that activates the request, my program freezes for a few seconds until the request is finished. I also have another request which is done automatically every 60 seconds. Which of course means every 60 seconds, my program freezes for a few seconds. How to fix this?

    private string twitchCallAPI(string accessKey, string accessSecret, string endpointURI, string httpMethod)
    {
        OAuthHttpWebRequest httpRequest = new OAuthHttpWebRequest();
        httpRequest.ConsumerToken = new OAuthToken { Token = this.twitchConKey, TokenSecret = this.twitchConSecret };
        httpRequest.Token = new OAuthToken() { Token = accessKey, TokenSecret = accessSecret };
        httpRequest.SetUri(endpointURI);
        httpRequest.Method = httpMethod;

        try
        {
            using (var response = httpRequest.GetResponse())
            {
                using (var reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()))
                {
                    return reader.ReadToEnd();
                }
            }
        }
        catch (WebException ex)
        {
            using (var reader = new StreamReader(ex.Response.GetResponseStream()))
            {
                System.Windows.MessageBox.Show(reader.ReadToEnd());
            }
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            System.Windows.MessageBox.Show(ex.ToString());
        }

        return string.Empty;
    }

Answer 1

You could use a background worker