Creates WebRequest objects for specific network request schemes.
Object
WebRequestFactory
[Visual Basic] Public Class WebRequestFactory [C#] public class WebRequestFactory [C++] public __gc class WebRequestFactory [JScript] public class WebRequestFactory
The WebRequestFactory class returns an instance of an object derived from WebRequest. The specific class of object returned is based on the URI scheme passed to the Create method.
Create is static so there is no need to create an instance before it can be used.
Namespace: System.Net
Assembly: System.net.dll
The following example creates a WebRequest instance for an HTTP request. The actual instance returned is an instance of HttpWebRequest.
[C#]
WebRequest wr = WebRequestFactory.Create("http://www.microsoft.com/");