How to fill forms and submit with Webclient in C#

Question

I\'m new at using the the libraries WebClient, HttpResponse and HttpRequest in C#, so bear with me, if my question is confusing to read.

I need to build a WinForm ba

Answer 1

BFree's answer works great. One thing I would note, though, is that the data concatenation should really be url-encoded, otherwise you'd have trouble with things like "=" and "&" signs within the data.

The VB.NET version, urlencoded and with UTF-8 support, is below (note that url-encoding requires a reference to System.Web.dll, which only worked for me after I switched from .NET 4 Compact Framework to the regular .NET 4 Framework).

Imports System.Web
Imports System.Net
Imports System.IO

Public Class WebFormSubmitter

    Public Shared Function submit(ByVal address As String,
                                  ByVal values As Dictionary(Of String, String)) As String
        Dim encoding As New UTF8Encoding
        Dim postData As String = getPostData(values:=values)
        Dim data() As Byte = encoding.GetBytes(postData)

        Dim request = CType(WebRequest.Create(address), HttpWebRequest)
        request.Method = "POST"
        request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
        request.ContentLength = data.Length
        Dim newStream = request.GetRequestStream()
        newStream.Write(data, 0, data.Length)
        newStream.Close()

        Dim response = request.GetResponse()
        Dim responseStream = response.GetResponseStream()
        Dim responseReader = New StreamReader(responseStream)
        Return responseReader.ReadToEnd()
    End Function

    Private Shared Function getPostData(ByVal values As Dictionary(Of String, String)) As String
        Dim postDataPairList As New List(Of String)
        For Each anEntry In values
            postDataPairList.Add(anEntry.Key & "=" & HttpUtility.UrlEncode(anEntry.Value))
        Next
        Return String.Join(separator:="&", values:=postDataPairList)
    End Function

End Class