Is WebRequest The Right C# Tool For Interacting With Websites?

Question

I\'m writing a small tool in C# which will need to send and receive data to/from a website using POST and json formatting. I\'ve never done anything like this before in C#

Answer 1

The currently highest rated answer is helpful, but it doesn't send or receive JSON.

Here is an example that uses JSON for both sending and receiving:

How to post json object in web service

And here is the StackOverflow question that helped me most to solve this problem:

Problems sending and receiving JSON between ASP.net web service and ASP.Net web client

And here is another related question:

json call with C#