HelloWorldExample hangs - what am I missing?

[Nick-Aus]

Hi all,

Fresh install of VS2022 (community 17.1.5), .NET6 (net6.0-windows), Chaos.NaCl.Standard (1.0.0) & Portable.BouncyCastle (1.9.0).
Solnet.Rpc & Wallet installed via NuGet from inside VS.

var wallet = new Wallet(WordCount.TwentyFour, WordList.English);
...
IRpcClient rpcClient = ClientFactory.GetClient(Cluster.TestNet);
var balance = rpcClient.GetBalance(wallet.Account.PublicKey);
Debug.WriteLine($"Balance: {balance.Result.Value}");

The above hangs on GetBalance() for longer than my patience can cope (several minutes).
I have tried different cluster options, and can see a connection (using fiddler) is opened to the appropriate URL with no error. I have also tried requests that don't rely on a wallet eg GetEpochInfo() which does the same thing, ie hangs.

Is there something I'm missing here? I am clearly missing something simple 😣🤔

Cheers,

--Nick

[Nick-Aus]

Turns out the solution was to change the project to use the Solana Beach API - which is actually supported