Ever since upgrading to Visual Studio 2010, I\'m running into an issue where the first web request of any type (WebRequest, WebClient, etc.) hangs for about 20 seconds befor
Brent - that's the correct solution : adding a defaultProxy element to your application's configuration file.
So for a website, it's the web.config. For an .exe application, it's .config.
And those settings are also correct :-