c# using httpclient

Question

using System;
using System.Net.Http;

class Program
{

public static void Main (string[] args) {

string GetRandomWord() {
HttpClient wc = new HttpClient();
string wordlist = wc.DownLoadString("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/imsky/wordlists/master/nouns/food.txt");
string[] words = wordlist.Split('\n');
Random rnd = new Random();
return words[rnd.Next(0, words.Length - 1)];
}

}
}

the code is supposed to run a random word selected in the link however it's not running I believe it has something to do with httpclient.

Answer 1

The code you have copied in here does not run.

GetRandomWord is not called as a function.

Unfortunately the sololearn playground does not allow the use of System.Net.Http. So we can't use HttpClient in the playground.

When I test this code in my visual studio. It gave me the following error HTTPClient does not contain a definition for download string.

Download string is part of WebClient
https://code.sololearn.com/cKejPNERssf5/?ref=app