How do I send a simple GET request on Windows Phone 8?

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I'm trying to create a code in Windows Phone 8 for sending a basic GET request to a PHP file in the format http://localhost/get_request.php?username=sops
How do I do this?

Posted 10-Mar-13 8:35am

CoolSops

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Prasad Khandekar · Answer 1 · 2013-03-10T09:05:00

Solution 1

Hello,

You can use something like below code snippet to achieve it.

C#

WebClient webClient = new WebClient();
// Register the callback
webClient.DownloadStringCompleted += new DownloadStringCompletedEventHandler(webClient_DownloadStringCompleted);
webClient.DownloadStringAsync(new System.Uri(YOUR_URL));

void webClient_DownloadStringCompleted(object sender, DownloadStringCompletedEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.Error == null)
    {
        updateSomething(e.result);
    }
}

Here YOUR_URL will be "http://localhost/get_request.php?username=sops".

Regards,

Posted 10-Mar-13 9:05am

Prasad Khandekar

Updated 10-Mar-13 21:58pm

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CoolSops 10-Mar-13 19:19pm

Is the "GetResponseAsync" method present in Windows Phone 8 API? I tried looking it for at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/jj207211(v=vs.105).aspx but couldn't find any. Did you import any additional libraries? Sorry, if my question sounds like a total noob but I'm used to programming with Java and not with .Net

Prasad Khandekar 11-Mar-13 3:59am

Hello,

Updated the sample. Instead of HttpWebRequest it now uses WebClient which is much easy to work with.