How do I set up HttpContent for my HttpClient PostAsync second parameter?

public static async Task<string> GetData(string url, string data)
{
    UriBuilder fullUri = new UriBuilder(url);

    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(data))
        fullUri.Query = data;

    HttpClient client = new HttpClient();

    HttpResponseMessage response = await client.PostAsync(new Uri(url), /*expects HttpContent*/);

    response.Content.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("application/json");
    response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();
    string responseBody = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();

    return responseBody;
}

The PostAsync takes another parameter that needs to be HttpContent.

How do I set up an HttpContent? There Is no documentation anywhere that works for Windows Phone 8.

If I do GetAsync, it works great! but it needs to be POST with the content of key=”bla”, something=”yay”

//EDIT

Thanks so much for the answer… This works well, but still a few unsures here:

    public static async Task<string> GetData(string url, string data)
    {
        data = "test=something";

        HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
        StringContent queryString = new StringContent(data);

        HttpResponseMessage response = await client.PostAsync(new Uri(url), queryString );

        //response.Content.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("application/json");
        response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();
        string responseBody = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();

        return responseBody;
    }

The data “test=something” I assumed would pick up on the api side as post data “test”, evidently it does not. On another matter, I may need to post entire objects/arrays through post data, so I assume json will be best to do so. Any thoughts on how I get post data through?

Perhaps something like:

class SomeSubData
{
    public string line1 { get; set; }
    public string line2 { get; set; }
}

class PostData
{
    public string test { get; set; }
    public SomeSubData lines { get; set; }
}

PostData data = new PostData { 
    test = "something",
    lines = new SomeSubData {
        line1 = "a line",
        line2 = "a second line"
    }
}
StringContent queryString = new StringContent(data); // But obviously that won't work

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