Windows Communication Foundation and RESTful Web Services Primer

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Net;
using System.Runtime.Serialization.Json;
using System.Threading;

namespace WCFJsonPost
{
    internal class Program
    {
        internal static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Thread.Sleep(10000);
            TestWcfRestPost();
        }

        private static void TestWcfRestPost()
        {
            // create the serializer that saves classes as JSON
            DataContractJsonSerializer serializer = new DataContractJsonSerializer(typeof(PostedData));
            PostedData dataToPost = new PostedData
                                        {
                                            FirstName = "Bart",
                                            LastName = "Simpson"
                                        };
            // set up our request
            HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(@"http://localhost:41000/MathService/web/data");
            request.Accept = "*/*";
            // we're going to post JSON
            request.ContentType = "application/json";
            request.Method = "POST";
            using (Stream stream = request.GetRequestStream())
            {
                // send data
                serializer.WriteObject(stream, dataToPost);
                stream.Flush();
            }

            // get the response
            HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
            using(Stream stream = response.GetResponseStream())
            {
                using(TextReader reader = new StreamReader(stream))
                {
                    Console.WriteLine(reader.ReadToEnd());
                }
            }
        }
    }
}