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C# – How to get the status code when using HttpClient

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When you use HttpClient to make requests, you can directly get the status code from the HttpResponseMessage object, like this: The main reason for checking the status code is to determine if the request was successful and then reacting to error status codes (usually by throwing an exception). The HttpResponseMessage class has two helpers that … Read more

C# – Trim a UTF-8 string to the specified number of bytes

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Here’s the simplest way to efficiently trim a UTF-8 string to the specified number of bytes: A UTF-8 string can have a mix of characters between 1 to 4 bytes. When you only take part of the byte array, you may end up cutting multi-byte chars in half, which then get replaced with the replacement … Read more