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Accepted answer

That's right, Steven.

The line is equivalent to these two lines:

WebClient wc = new WebClient();
wc.DownloadString("http://www.foo.com");

However, if you don't need to refer to the 'wc' variable elsewhere, you can avoid declaring it at all by combining these two lines into one.

Guest User14y ago

Brilliant thank-you!

Guest User14y ago

Ah I see, so even though there is no instance variable being used, the WebClient class can still access its own instance member(s).

Vulpes14y ago

The important thing to note here is that WebClient() is preceded by 'new'.

So, that line is creating a new WebClient object (using its parameterless constructor) and then calling its instance method DownloadString.