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C# C# Streams and Data Processing Streaming Data on the Net WebClient

Posted by Anakin Bjelland
Anakin Bjelland
7,176 Points

Why wont it accept the link thats identical to the one in the challenge text in?

Im on step 2 of this challenge and it wont pass the link, what am i doring wrong?

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

namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(GetTreehouseHome());
        }

        public static string GetTreehouseHome()
        {
            string treehouse = "";
            // Put code here
            using (var webClient = new WebClient())
            byte[] treehouseBytes = webClient.DownloadData (https://www.teamtreehouse.com);
            return treehouse;
        }
    }
}

1 Answer

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

I see two issues:

  • you forgot to put quotes around the URL argument to DownloadData
  • the entire statement needs to be inside of a code block (made with braces)