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In many projects, we have to interact with remote APIs to retrieve data or delegate actions to external services. Common scenarios include calling an Invoice Service API to publish invoices or ...

Tip for .NET Developers: Don't misuse HttpClient. One of the most common performance issues I see in APIs comes from this mistake: var client = new HttpClient(); Creating a new HttpClient for every ...

Whenever we want to communicate with an API, we need a tool for that, one choice is HttpClient. HttpClient is built into .NET, and it's a very powerful tool for communicating with APIs. diminishes ...

We've been informed by Microsoft that New Relic is causing exceptions in some customer applications due to our access to the HTTP headers collection in HttpClient: dotnet/yarp#1337. We will want to ...

You can take advantage of HttpClientFactory to preconfigure named HttpClient instances. Note that the HttpClientFactory is a central location that can be used to register, configure, and consume ...

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 typically ...

The .NET Framework gives you three different ways to call a Web Service. However, depending on your scenario, the latest and greatest object isn’t necessarily your best choice. If you’re going to call ...