If you use HttpClient in a pseudo-synchronous mode, the code can be a little ugly, as Listing 3 shows, which has almost as many lines of code as the original HttpWebRequest object required. Listing 3: ...

However, if you use HttpClient as it was intended (asynchronously), then the code gets simpler. If I use await and async, as shown in Listing 4, the code isn’t quite as short as with the WebClient … ...

When working in applications in ASP.NET Core you might often need to invoke the Web API action methods using HttpClient to check if the endpoints are working fine. To achieve this, you would ...