PATCH Async requests with Windows.Web.Http.HttpClient class

Update: See SSX-SL33PY's answer below for an even better solution, that does the same thing.

You can write the very same method as extension method, so you can invoke it directly on the HttpClient object:

public static class HttpClientExtensions
{
   public static async Task<HttpResponseMessage> PatchAsync(this HttpClient client, Uri requestUri, HttpContent iContent)
   {
       var method = new HttpMethod("PATCH");
       var request = new HttpRequestMessage(method, requestUri)
       {
           Content = iContent
       };

       HttpResponseMessage response = new HttpResponseMessage();
       try
       {
           response = await client.SendAsync(request);
       }
       catch (TaskCanceledException e)
       {
           Debug.WriteLine("ERROR: " + e.ToString());
       }

       return response;
   }
}

Usage:

var responseMessage = await httpClient.PatchAsync(new Uri("testUri"), httpContent);

I found how to do a "custom" PATCH request with the previous System.Net.Http.HttpClient class here, and then fiddled with until I made it work in the Windows.Web.Http.HttpClient class, like so:

public async Task<HttpResponseMessage> PatchAsync(HttpClient client, Uri requestUri, IHttpContent iContent) {
    var method = new HttpMethod("PATCH");

    var request = new HttpRequestMessage(method, requestUri) {
        Content = iContent
    };

    HttpResponseMessage response = new HttpResponseMessage();
    // In case you want to set a timeout
    //CancellationToken cancellationToken = new CancellationTokenSource(60).Token;

    try {
         response = await client.SendRequestAsync(request);
         // If you want to use the timeout you set
         //response = await client.SendRequestAsync(request).AsTask(cancellationToken);
    } catch(TaskCanceledException e) {
        Debug.WriteLine("ERROR: " + e.ToString());
    }

    return response;
}