How to upload text to an ASP.NET MVC 2 Action from a Windows Application

Question

I'm new to asp.net mvc and web development in general and would like to know the best way to pass text from a windows application written in c# to a asp.net mvc website so it can be stored in a database. Is it possible to call a controller action (via a url similar to REST) from the Windows application or do I need to create a web service? If someone can point me to a verbose example that would be great.

Thanks

Answer 1

You can use the WebClient class. Look here for a simple sample.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Why do you want to pass it to your MVC site to store in the database? How are you interacting with your database in the MVC site?

If you have two different applications that need to access the data you should put it in a separate layer and may be create a WCF service or a Web Service.