Easy as Eating Pie and Much Faster
If you are just retrieving a scalar (single) value from a REST method (as opposed to an array of json elements or so), it is easy as eating huckleberry pie to call the method and consume the value it returns. How easy? Czech it out:
private string GetScalarVal(string uri)
{
var client = new WebClient();
return client.DownloadString(uri);
}
Now you can call this method as many times as there are methods of that ilk like so:
private void buttonYourLip_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
MessageBox.Show(GetScalarVal("http://localhost:28642/api/duckbilledPlatypi/Count"));
}
Hats off to Larry, I mean Jon Skeet, for turning me on to WebClient.DownloadString()
As the Frenchmen say, voilà!
I am in the process of morphing from a software developer into a portrayer of Mark Twain. My monologue (or one-man play, entitled "The Adventures of Mark Twain: As Told By Himself" and set in 1896) features Twain giving an overview of his life up till then. The performance includes the relating of interesting experiences and humorous anecdotes from Twain's boyhood and youth, his time as a riverboat pilot, his wild and woolly adventures in the Territory of Nevada and California, and experiences as a writer and world traveler, including recollections of meetings with many of the famous and powerful of the 19th century - royalty, business magnates, fellow authors, as well as intimate glimpses into his home life (his parents, siblings, wife, and children).
Peripatetic and picaresque, I have lived in eight states; specifically, besides my native California (where I was born and where I now again reside) in chronological order: New York, Montana, Alaska, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Idaho, and Missouri.
I am also a writer of both fiction (for which I use a nom de plume, "Blackbird Crow Raven", as a nod to my Native American heritage - I am "½ Cowboy, ½ Indian") and nonfiction, including a two-volume social and cultural history of the U.S. which covers important events from 1620-2006: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/blackbirdcraven
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