In addition to simplifying requests, the WebClient provides methods for asynchronously calling Web Services (both in uploading and downloading). And, while you don’t have quite the low-level control ...

In this article I would present a discussion on implementing HTTP authentication in Web API with code examples to illustrate the concepts discussed.

HttpClient: Asynchronous Heaven However, if you are using the .NET Framework version 4.5 or later (and version 4.5 has been out for five years now), then you also have access to the HttpClient object.