Question

So, I have an action on a controller in my MVC3 website that I’m using as a service. The return type is string, and I’m wondering what would be the best way to consume this?

public class HomeController : Controller {       
    public string GetSomeValue(){          
        return "This is some value";      
    }  
} 

Should I use the WebClient class, and if so, what method would be best suited for this? I’ve never used this class before and it looks a little hairy?

This question is part 2 of this question.

Answer 1

You could either use WebClient or the WebRequest object if you want to call your service from the server.

If you just want to read a string you could use it like this:

using (WebClient client = new WebClient())
{
   string value = client.DownloadString("http://www.yoursite.com/Home/GetSomeValue");
}