System.Net namespaces

System.Net and its child namespaces (System.Net.Http, System.Net.Http.Headers, and System.Net.NetworkInformation) contain types that provide networking support.

This topic displays the types in the System.Net namespaces that are included in the .NET for Windows Store apps. Note that the .NET for Windows Store apps does not include all the members of each type. For information about individual types, see the linked topics. The documentation for a type indicates which members are included in the .NET for Windows Store apps.

System.Net namespace

Types supported in the .NET for Windows Store apps	Description
AuthenticationSchemes	Specifies protocols for authentication.
Cookie	Provides a set of properties and methods that are used to manage cookies. This class cannot be inherited.
CookieCollection	Provides a collection container for instances of the Cookie class.
CookieContainer	Provides a container for a collection of CookieCollection objects.
CookieException	The exception that is thrown when an error is made adding a Cookie to a CookieContainer.
CredentialCache	Provides storage for multiple credentials.
DecompressionMethods	Represents the file compression and decompression encoding format to be used to compress the data received in response to an HttpWebRequest.
HttpRequestHeader	The HTTP headers that may be specified in a client request.
HttpStatusCode	Contains the values of status codes defined for HTTP.
HttpWebRequest	Provides an HTTP-specific implementation of the WebRequest class.
HttpWebResponse	Provides an HTTP-specific implementation of the WebResponse class.
ICredentials	Provides the base authentication interface for retrieving credentials for Web client authentication.
ICredentialsByHost	Provides the interface for retrieving credentials for a host, port, and authentication type.
IWebProxy	Provides the base interface for implementation of proxy access for the WebRequest class.
IWebRequestCreate	Provides the base interface for creating WebRequest instances.
NetworkCredential	Provides credentials for password-based authentication schemes such as basic, digest, NTLM, and Kerberos authentication.
ProtocolViolationException	The exception that is thrown when an error is made while using a network protocol.
TransportContext	The TransportContext class provides additional context about the underlying transport layer.
WebException	The exception that is thrown when an error occurs while accessing the network through a pluggable protocol.
WebExceptionStatus	Defines status codes for the WebException class.
WebHeaderCollection	Contains protocol headers associated with a request or response.
WebRequest	Makes a request to a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI). This is an abstract class.
WebResponse	Provides a response from a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI). This is an abstract class.
WebUtility	Provides methods for encoding and decoding URLs when processing Web requests.

System.Net.Http namespace

Types supported in the .NET for Windows Store apps	Description
ByteArrayContent	Provides HTTP content based on a byte array.
ClientCertificateOption	Specifies how client certificates are provided.
DelegatingHandler	A base type for HTTP handlers that delegate the processing of HTTP response messages to another handler, called the inner handler.
FormUrlEncodedContent	A container for name/value tuples encoded using application/x-www-form-urlencoded MIME type.
HttpClient	Provides a base class for sending HTTP requests and receiving HTTP responses from a resource identified by a URI.
HttpClientHandler	A base class for HTTP handler implementations.
HttpCompletionOption	Indicates if HttpClient operations should be considered completed either as soon as a response is available, or after reading the entire response message including the content.
HttpContent	A base class representing an HTTP entity body and content headers.
HttpMessageHandler	A base type for HTTP message handlers.
HttpMessageInvoker	The base type for HttpClient and other message originators.
HttpMethod	A helper class for retrieving and comparing standard HTTP methods.
HttpRequestException	A base class for exceptions thrown by the HttpClient and HttpMessageHandler classes.
HttpRequestMessage	Represents a HTTP request message.
HttpResponseMessage	Represents a HTTP response message.
MessageProcessingHandler	A base type for handlers which only do some small processing of request and/or response messages.
MultipartContent	Provides a collection of HttpContent objects that get serialized using the multipart content type specification.
MultipartFormDataContent	Provides a container for content encoded using multipart/form-data MIME type.
RtcRequestFactory	Represents the class that is used to create special HttpRequestMessage for use with the Real-Time-Communications (RTC) background notification infrastructure.
StreamContent	Provides HTTP content based on a stream.
StringContent	Provides HTTP content based on a string.

System.Net.Http.Headers namespace

Types supported in the .NET for Windows Store apps	Description
AuthenticationHeaderValue	Represents authentication information in Authorization, ProxyAuthorization, WWW-Authneticate, and Proxy-Authenticate header values.
CacheControlHeaderValue	Represents the value of the Cache-Control header.
ContentDispositionHeaderValue	Represents the value of the Content-Disposition header.
ContentRangeHeaderValue	Represents the value of the Content-Range header.
EntityTagHeaderValue	Represents an entity-tag header value.
HttpContentHeaders	Represents the collection of Content Headers as defined in RFC 2616.
HttpHeaders	A collection of headers and their values as defined in RFC 2616.
HttpHeaderValueCollection<T>	Represents a collection of header values.
HttpRequestHeaders	Represents the collection of Request Headers as defined in RFC 2616.
HttpResponseHeaders	Represents the collection of Response Headers as defined in RFC 2616.
MediaTypeHeaderValue	Represents a media-type as defined in the RFC 2616.
MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue	Represents a content-type header value with an additional quality.
NameValueHeaderValue	Represents a name/value pair.
NameValueWithParametersHeaderValue	Represents a name/value pair with parameters.
ProductHeaderValue	Represents a product header value.
ProductInfoHeaderValue	Represents a value which can either be a product or a comment.
RangeConditionHeaderValue	Represents a header value which can either be a date/time or an entity-tag value.
RangeHeaderValue	Represents the value of the Range header.
RangeItemHeaderValue	Represents a byte-range header value.
RetryConditionHeaderValue	Represents a header value which can either be a date/time or a timespan value.
StringWithQualityHeaderValue	Represents a string header value with an optional quality.
TransferCodingHeaderValue	Represents a transfer-coding header value.
TransferCodingWithQualityHeaderValue	Represents a transfer-coding header value with optional quality.
ViaHeaderValue	Represents the value of a Via header.
WarningHeaderValue	Represents a warning value used by the Warning header.

System.Net.NetworkInformation namespace

Types supported in the .NET for Windows Store apps	Description
NetworkAddressChangedEventHandler	References one or more methods to be called when the address of a network interface changes.
NetworkChange	Allows applications to receive notification when the Internet Protocol (IP) address of a network interface, also called a network card or adapter, changes.
NetworkInterface	Provides configuration and statistical information for a network interface.

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.NET for Windows Store apps APIs