Can I use WCF Starter Kit HttpClient with confidence?

Question

I would like to start using the WCF Rest Starter Kit's HttpClient to build clients for my Restful WCF services and I was wondering...

1. If anyone is currently experience any problems with it

2. Can I be confident that future versions of the component (just the HttpClient, not worried about the rest of the kit) will not contain significant changes to the API?

It seems like a pretty straight-forward component so I can't imagine any major changes with it, but maybe somebody here who is more "in the know" could give me a heads up.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I work on the WCF team and I wrote most of the HttpClient code.

1. No major known issues. The public issue tracker is at http://aspnet.codeplex.com/WorkItem/List.aspx (search for HttpClient or WCF REST).

2. Microsoft does reserve the right to change it. That being said, I don't think there will be significant changes to the API that has shipped. (Maybe some minor renaming.) We're mostly considering adding features/capabilities, which shouldn't break your existing code.

A great way to tell us about your usage is via the forum: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9632199 .