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C# C# Streams and Data Processing Streaming Data on the Net Become Zen

Posted by Sharon Gracious Thato Khumomotse
Sharon Gracious Thato Khumomotse
2,380 Points

C# zenResponse Challenge Task 2

Please help. This is what it gives me: Bummer: Did you assign the return value of the 'DownloadString' method to the 'zenResponse' variable?

Program.cs 
using System; 
using System.IO; 
using System.Net;

namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges 
{ 
    class Program 
{ 
    static void Main(string[] args) 
    { 
        Console.WriteLine(BecomeZen()); 
          } 
        public static string BecomeZen() 
        { 
            string zenResponse = "";

        using(var webClient = new WebClient())
        {
        webClient.Headers.Add("User-Agent", "CodeChallenge");
        string response = webClient.DownloadString("https://api.github.com/zen");
        }

        return zenResponse;
    }
}
}

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,275 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,275 Points

The instructions say "Assign the result to the zenResponse variable.", but this code is assigning it to a new variable named "response" (which is then never used).

And happy holidays!   :christmas_tree:

Sharon Gracious Thato Khumomotse
Sharon Gracious Thato Khumomotse
2,380 Points

Alright. Thanks.

Sharon Gracious Thato Khumomotse
Sharon Gracious Thato Khumomotse
2,380 Points
Sharon Gracious Thato Khumomotse
Sharon Gracious Thato Khumomotse
2,380 Points

Sure, I'll do so. Happy holidays to you too, Steven.