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WebClient::QueryString Property

 

Gets or sets a collection of query name/value pairs associated with the request.

Namespace:   System.Net
Assembly:  System (in System.dll)

public:
property NameValueCollection^ QueryString {
	NameValueCollection^ get();
	void set(NameValueCollection^ value);
}

Property Value

Type: System.Collections.Specialized::NameValueCollection^

A NameValueCollection that contains query name/value pairs associated with the request. If no pairs are associated with the request, the value is an empty NameValueCollection.

The QueryString property contains a NameValueCollection instance containing name/value pairs that are appended to the URI as a query string. The contents of the QueryString property are preceded by a question mark (?), and name/value pairs are separated from one another by an ampersand (&).

The following code example takes user input from the command line and builds a NameValueCollection that is assigned to the QueryString property. It then downloads the response from the server to a local file.

String^ uriString = "http://www.contoso.com/search";
// Create a new WebClient instance.
WebClient^ myWebClient = gcnew WebClient;
// Create a new NameValueCollection instance to hold the QueryString parameters and values.
NameValueCollection^ myQueryStringCollection = gcnew NameValueCollection;
Console::Write( "Enter the word(s), separated by space character to search for in {0}: ", uriString );
// Read user input phrase to search for at uriString.
String^ searchPhrase = Console::ReadLine();
if ( searchPhrase->Length > 1 )
{
   // Assign the user-defined search phrase.
   myQueryStringCollection->Add( "q", searchPhrase );
}
else
{
   // If error, default to search for 'Microsoft'.
   myQueryStringCollection->Add( "q", "Microsoft" );
}
// Assign auxilliary parameters required for the search.
Console::WriteLine( "Searching {0} .......", uriString );
// Attach QueryString to the WebClient.
myWebClient->QueryString = myQueryStringCollection;
// Download the search results Web page into 'searchresult.htm' for inspection.
myWebClient->DownloadFile( uriString, "searchresult.htm" );
Console::WriteLine( "\nDownload of {0} was successful. Please see 'searchresult.htm' for results.", uriString );

.NET Framework
Available since 1.1
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