webclient methods not available to my Silverlight application

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Published on 2010-02-22T03:09:31Z Indexed on 2010/05/20 14:10 UTC
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Trying to do basic webclient data pull in C#, and the methods are not available in visualstudio, and the code is not compiling.

        //snip
        WebClient client = new WebClient();
        byte[] resp = client.DownloadData(url);
        //snip

Error 1 'System.Net.WebClient' does not contain a definition for 'DownloadData' and no extension method 'DownloadData' accepting a first argument of type 'System.Net.WebClient' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) C:\Users\Michael\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\search2\search2\MainPage.xaml.cs

I'm doing this in a c# file for a XAML/Silverlight project, but can't imagine why that would make a difference. I can not find any reference to this issue on the web, and I had something similar to this working last month, but in a regular ASP.NET page, not in a Silverlight app.

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