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I have to really ask this question as I donot know Python. Following are a few lines taken from this place. I would appreciate if someone guides me in translating the following to C#

#Step 1: Get a session key
servercontent = myhttp.request(baseurl + '/services/auth/login', 'POST',
                            headers={}, body=urllib.urlencode({'username':username, 'password':password}))[1]
sessionkey = minidom.parseString(servercontent).getElementsByTagName('sessionKey')[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue
print "====>sessionkey:  %s  <====" % sessionkey
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I can't translate it to C#, but I can explain what this code does:

  1. Login to baseurl + '/services/auth/login' using the username and password provided.
  2. Read the contents of that URL.
  3. Parse the content for the first <sessionkey> tag, and read the value of its first child node.
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I would think that this would be completely sufficient for someone that does know C#, since they should be able to now write the equivalent. Don't see why it would even be necc to actually write out the C# anyways. +1
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Here's a quick-n-dirty translation:

using System.Linq.Xml;
using System.Net;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Web;

// ...
var client = new WebClient();
var parameters = new Dictionary<string, string> 
{ 
  { "username", username },
  { "password", password }
};

var result = client.UploadString(String.Format("{0}/services/auth/login", BaseUrl), UrlEncode(parameters));
var doc = XDocument.Load(result);  // load response into XML document (LINQ)
var key = doc.Elements("sessionKey").Single().Value // get the one-and-only <sessionKey> element.
Console.WriteLine("====>sessionkey:  {0}  <====", key);
// ...

// Utility function: 
private static string UrlEncode(IDictionary<string, string> parameters)
{
  var sb = new StringBuilder();
  foreach(var val in parameters) 
  {
    // add each parameter to the query string, url-encoding the value.
    sb.AppendFormat("{0}={1}&", val.Key, HttpUtility.UrlEncode(val.Value));
  }
  sb.Remove(sb.Length - 1, 1); // remove last '&'
  return sb.ToString();
}

This code does a check to see that the response only has one sessionKey element, otherwise it'll throw an exception if there's 0, or more than 1. Then it prints it out.

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