How do we use RestClient to call Web API from Asp.Net MVC.

A simple example can be

public class AccountController : Controller
{
AccountDetail account = null;
private readonly RestClient _client;
private readonly string _url = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["url"];
private List GetAccountData()
{
try
{
account = new AccountDetail();
var request = new RestRequest("api/Account", Method.GET) { RequestFormat = DataFormat.Json };
var response = _client.Execute>(request);
if (response.Data == null)
throw new Exception(response.ErrorMessage);
return response.Data;
}
catch (Exception)
{
return null;
}
}

Here url is the base url of your web api stored in web.config as key value under app settings.
AccountDetail is business Entity (You can create one as Model class or EF will generate from DB)

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