A simple console utility for browsing and searching Github's Gist ... not fully finished, due to limitations in the API

GistManager.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;
using System.Net;
using System.IO;

namespace gist
{
    public class GistManager
    {
        protected List<String> repos;
        StringBuilder jsonString = new StringBuilder();

        public GistManager(String username)
        {
            byte[] buffer = new byte[8192];
            HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://gist.github.com/api/v1/json/gists/"+username);
            HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
            Stream responseStream = response.GetResponseStream();

            int count = 0;
            String tempString;
            
            do
            {

                count = responseStream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);

                tempString = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(buffer, 0, count);

                jsonString.Append(tempString);



            } while (count > 0);

            repos = getRepos(jsonString.ToString());
        }

        public List<String> getRepos(String jsonString)
        {
            JObject o = JObject.Parse(jsonString);
            List<String> results = o.SelectToken("gists").Select(m => (String)m.SelectToken("repo")).ToList();

            return results;
        }

        public void Search(String searchPhrase)
        {
            //to be implemented
        }
    }
}