Consuming Web Services Using HTTP Clients and Getting Consumers

Now that we have built and tested our Northwind service, we will learn how to call it from any .NET app using the HttpClient class and its factory.

Understanding HttpClient

The easiest way to consume a web service is to use the HttpClient class. However, many people use it wrongly because it implements IDisposable , and Microsoft’s own documentation shows poor usage of it.

Usually, when a type implements IDisposable, we should ...