How to consume a web services end point through c#

Question

I want to make a get request to the following end point through C#.

http://api.example.com/1/companies/{id}

I was looking at WCF rest starter kit and wonder there are other ways to make get requests easily than installing rest starter kit.

Please suggest. Thanks,

Answer 1

Here's a method that will execute GET from URL and return string:

public static string GetResponse(string endPoint)
        {
            HttpWebRequest request = CreateWebRequest(endPoint);

            using (var response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse())
            {
                var responseValue = string.Empty;

                if (response.StatusCode != HttpStatusCode.OK)
                {
                    string message = String.Format("POST failed. Received HTTP {0}", response.StatusCode);
                    throw new ApplicationException(message);
                }

                // grab the response  
                using (var responseStream = response.GetResponseStream())
                {
                    using (var reader = new StreamReader(responseStream))
                    {
                        responseValue = reader.ReadToEnd();
                    }
                }

                return responseValue;
            }
        }

EDIT:

private static HttpWebRequest CreateWebRequest(string endPoint)
        {
            var request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(endPoint);

            request.Method = "GET";
            request.ContentLength = 0;
            request.ContentType = "text/json";

            return request;
        }