How to consume HttpClient from F#?

Question

I\'m new to F# and stuck in understanding async in F# from the perspective of a C# developer. Say having the following snippet in C#:

Answer 1

You can use async:

let readString (url: Uri) = async {
    let httpClient = new HttpClient();
    let! response = httpClient.GetAsync(url) |> Async.AwaitTask
    response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode() |> ignore
    return! response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync() |> Async.AwaitTask
}