How to get HttpClient to pass credentials along with the request?

Question

I have a web application (hosted in IIS) that talks to a Windows service. The Windows service is using the ASP.Net MVC Web API (self-hosted), and so can be communicated with

Answer 1

Ok so I took Joshoun code and made it generic. I am not sure if I should implement singleton pattern on SynchronousPost class. Maybe someone more knowledgeble can help.

Implementation

//I assume you have your own concrete type. In my case I have am using code first with a class called FileCategory

FileCategory x = new FileCategory { CategoryName = "Some Bs"};
SynchronousPosttest= new SynchronousPost();
test.PostEntity(x, "/api/ApiFileCategories"); 

Generic Class here. You can pass any type

 public class SynchronousPostwhere T :class
    {
        public SynchronousPost()
        {
            Client = new WebClient { UseDefaultCredentials = true };
        }

        public void PostEntity(T PostThis,string ApiControllerName)//The ApiController name should be "/api/MyName/"
        {
            //this just determines the root url. 
            Client.BaseAddress = string.Format(
         (
            System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.Port != 80) ? "{0}://{1}:{2}" : "{0}://{1}",
            System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.Scheme,
            System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.Host,
            System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.Port
           );
            Client.Headers.Add(HttpRequestHeader.ContentType, "application/json;charset=utf-8");
            Client.UploadData(
                                 ApiControllerName, "Post", 
                                 Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes
                                 (
                                    JsonConvert.SerializeObject(PostThis)
                                 )
                             );  
        }
        private WebClient Client  { get; set; }
    }

My Api classs looks like this, if you are curious

public class ApiFileCategoriesController : ApiBaseController
{
    public ApiFileCategoriesController(IMshIntranetUnitOfWork unitOfWork)
    {
        UnitOfWork = unitOfWork;
    }

    public IEnumerable GetFiles()
    {
        return UnitOfWork.FileCategories.GetAll().OrderBy(x=>x.CategoryName);
    }
    public FileCategory GetFile(int id)
    {
        return UnitOfWork.FileCategories.GetById(id);
    }
    //Post api/ApileFileCategories

    public HttpResponseMessage Post(FileCategory fileCategory)
    {
        UnitOfWork.FileCategories.Add(fileCategory);
        UnitOfWork.Commit(); 
        return new HttpResponseMessage();
    }
}

I am using ninject, and repo pattern with unit of work. Anyways, the generic class above really helps.