Get the webpage data from URI.

using System.Net;   

 

 try {

// Download the data to a buffer.
       WebClient client = new WebClient();

  Byte[] pageData = client.DownloadData("http://www.contoso.com");
string pageHtml = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(pageData);   //get the data from uri.
Console.WriteLine(pageHtml);

// Download the data to a file.
        client.DownloadFile("http://www.contoso.com", "page.htm");

// Upload some form post values.
NameValueCollection form = new NameValueCollection();
form.Add("MyName", "MyValue");
Byte[] responseData = client.UploadValues("http://www.contoso.com/form.aspx", form);

        }
        catch (WebException webEx) {
          Console.WriteLine(webEx.ToString());
           if(webEx.Status == WebExceptionStatus.ConnectFailure) {

Console.WriteLine("Are you behind a firewall?  If so, go through the proxy server.");
           }
        }