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copied!<p>I use HttpWebRequest to GET from the web service, which returns me a JSON string. It looks something like this for a GET:</p> <pre><code>// Returns JSON string string GET(string url) { HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url); try { WebResponse response = request.GetResponse(); using (Stream responseStream = response.GetResponseStream()) { StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(responseStream, System.Text.Encoding.UTF8); return reader.ReadToEnd(); } } catch (WebException ex) { WebResponse errorResponse = ex.Response; using (Stream responseStream = errorResponse.GetResponseStream()) { StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(responseStream, System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("utf-8")); String errorText = reader.ReadToEnd(); // log errorText } throw; } } </code></pre> <p>I then use <a href="http://json.codeplex.com/" rel="noreferrer">JSON.Net</a> to dynamically parse the string. Alternatively, you can generate the C# class statically from sample JSON output using this codeplex tool: <a href="http://jsonclassgenerator.codeplex.com/" rel="noreferrer">http://jsonclassgenerator.codeplex.com/</a></p> <p>POST looks like this:</p> <pre><code>// POST a JSON string void POST(string url, string jsonContent) { HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url); request.Method = "POST"; System.Text.UTF8Encoding encoding = new System.Text.UTF8Encoding(); Byte[] byteArray = encoding.GetBytes(jsonContent); request.ContentLength = byteArray.Length; request.ContentType = @"application/json"; using (Stream dataStream = request.GetRequestStream()) { dataStream.Write(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length); } long length = 0; try { using (HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse()) { length = response.ContentLength; } } catch (WebException ex) { // Log exception and throw as for GET example above } } </code></pre> <p>I use code like this in automated tests of our web service.</p>

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