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    copied!<p>I am working with the Balanced Payments API and trying to figure out how to create a customer.</p> <p><a href="https://docs.balancedpayments.com/current/api.html?language=bash#creating-a-customer" rel="nofollow">https://docs.balancedpayments.com/current/api.html?language=bash#creating-a-customer</a></p> <p>The address is passed as an object, though I am unfamiliar with how to pass anything other than a string. Here is the code I have so far which successfully passes a name and email address:</p> <pre><code> Dim request As WebRequest = WebRequest.Create("https://api.balancedpayments.com/v1/customers") request.Method = "POST" ' get this information from settings in your web config. Dim userName As String = "API KEY GOES HERE" Dim credentials As String = Convert.ToString(userName &amp; Convert.ToString(":")) request.Headers("Authorization") = "Basic " + Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(credentials)) Dim postData As String = "name=John Doe&amp;email=jdoe@domain.com" Dim byteArray As Byte() = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(postData) request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" request.ContentLength = byteArray.Length Dim dataStream As Stream = request.GetRequestStream() dataStream.Write(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length) dataStream.Close() Dim response As WebResponse = request.GetResponse() ' create a data stream. dataStream = response.GetResponseStream() ' create a stream reader. Dim reader As New StreamReader(dataStream) ' read the content into a string Dim serverResponse As String = reader.ReadToEnd() ' clean up. reader.Close() dataStream.Close() response.Close() </code></pre>
 

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