Some basic REST end-point utilities

gistfile1.cs

private static string UrlCombine(string baseUrl, string resource)
{
    if (baseUrl.Length == 0)
    {
        return baseUrl;
    }

    if (resource.Length == 0)
    {
        return resource;
    }

    baseUrl = baseUrl.TrimEnd(new char[] { '/', '\\' });
    resource = resource.TrimStart(new char[] { '/', '\\' });

    return String.Format("{0}/{1}", baseUrl, resource);
}

public string BuildResource(string resource, Dictionary<string, string> parameters)
{
    string url = UrlCombine(_client.BaseUrl, resource);

    if (parameters != null)
    {
        // add in the developer key, it won't hurt methods that don't require it and prevents
        // having to scatter it across all calls that do.
        parameters.Add("key", ConsumerKey);

        StringBuilder apiParameters = new StringBuilder("?");
        foreach (KeyValuePair<string, string> pair in parameters)
        {
            apiParameters.AppendFormat(System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, "{0}={1}&", pair.Key, Uri.EscapeDataString(pair.Value));
        }

        url += apiParameters.ToString();
        url = url.TrimEnd('&');
    }

    return url;
}