How can I translate Webrequest method in HttpClient

Question

I have this code for recovering Http code and description, but Visual Studio says that WebRequest is obsolete and that I have to use HttpClient. I'm not familiar with HttpClient can you help me?

IConfigurationRoot config;

myRequest = WebRequest.CreateHttp($"{config["BASE_URL"]}{link}");
myResponse = (HttpWebResponse)myRequest.GetResponse();
Check_load($"{config["BASE_URL"]}{link}");

var code = ((int)myResponse.StatusCode);  
var desc = myResponse.StatusDescription;

Answer 1

var client = new HttpClient();
var response = await client.GetAsync(url);
var statusCode = response.StatusCode;
var content = response.Content;
if(statusCode != HttpStatusCode.OK && statusCode != HttpStatusCode.Created){
   //return something, error, description
}

Update
From comment @Charlieface pointed out where I haven't declared HttpClient as static field.
To avoid creating instances of HttpClient every time it is called, the complete workground as below.

public class HttpHelper{
   private static HttpClent client = new HttpClient();

   public static async Task<string> GetAsync(string url)
   {
      var response = await client.GetAsync(url);
      var statusCode = response.StatusCode;
      var content = response.Content;
      if(statusCode != HttpStatusCode.OK && statusCode != HttpStatusCode.Created)
      {
         //return something, error, description
         //return $"error with status code: {statusCode}";
      }
      else
      {
         //return "success";
      }
   }
}