How to get the content of HttpWebResponseMessage

Question

I have a asp.net MVC razor C# application which has 1 controller and 1 POST function which accepts a parameter. And the function returns a HttpResponseMessage.

Answer 1

You're mixing up WebAPI and MVC.

For WebAPI, the HttpResponseMessage (with Content = new StringContent("the string")) would work.

For MVC, the syntax to return a string is (note the ActionResult return type and Content() call):

public ActionResult Test() 
{
    return Content("This is my output");
}