Fastest C# Code to Download a Web Page

Question

Given a URL, what would be the most efficient code to download the contents of that web page? I am only considering the HTML, not associated images, JS and CSS.

Answer 1

Use the WebClient class from System.Net; on .NET 2.0 and higher.

WebClient Client = new WebClient ();
Client.DownloadFile("http://mysite.com/myfile.txt", " C:\myfile.txt");