HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse in C#

How to use HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse to create a webservice and how will the request and responses will be send across the wire?

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this is the syntax for using HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse

WebRequest _request; string text; string url = "UrlToGet"; _request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url); using (WebResponse response = _request.GetResponse()) { using (StreamReader reader =new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream())) { text = reader.ReadToEnd(); } } 

HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse are intended for client applications to make HTTP requests and read HTTP responses. You can't use them to create a server application.

If you want to create and consume SOAP web services using .NET then you need to learn WCF:

Windows Communication Foundation

WCF is a complex topic but Microsoft still support the legacy "ASP.NET Web Services" technology which might be easier to get a handle on to begin with:

ASP.NET Web Services

In particular:

XML Web Services Using ASP.NET