GET and POST to ASP.NET MVC Controller

Question

Hello,

I have a Silverlight app for Windows Phone that I need to interact with my backend. My backend exposes GET and POST end points via ASP.NET MVC. I am already using these endpoints with JQuery. For instance, my end points look like this:

[AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Get)] 
public ActionResult GetItem(string id, string caller) 
{ 
  // Do stuff 
}

[AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)]
public ActionResult SaveItem(string p1, string p2, string p3)
{
  // Do stuff
}

First, I'm not sure how do a GET with the WebClient in a way that allows me to pass in parameter values. Second, I'm not sure how to do a POST with the WebRequest object. We want to use the WebRequest because we had some performance issues with just the WebClient. Currently, I have the following:

WebRequest request = HttpWebRequest.Create("http://www.myapp.com/actions/AddItem"); 
request.Method = "POST"; 
request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";  
request.BeginGetResponse(new AsyncCallback(AddItem_Completed), request); 

Regardless, I'm not sure how to actually POST data (the parameters) back to my endpoints. Can someone give me some help? Thank you!

Answer 1

a.paranoid.android

 

http://www.iwantmymvc.com/using-silverlight-with-mvc-and-json

 

However, Silverlight is like Desktop , I would prefer to use WCF Ria Service rather than JSON. It work with MVC.