System.Net.WebClient fails weirdly

Question

I am trying to download some data from the reporting services instance on our TFS server.
Given that the code should run on a computer that is not domain-joined, I figured t

Answer 1

I was able to get around this error by using a CredentialCache object, as follows:

WebClient wc = new WebClient();
CredentialCache credCache = new CredentialCache();
credCache.Add(new Uri("http://mydomain.com/"), "Basic",
new NetworkCredential("username", "password"));

wc.Credentials = credCache;

wc.DownloadString(queryString));