How to find the port for MS SQL Server 2008?

Question

I am running MS SQL Server 2008 on my local machine. I know that the default port is 1433 but some how it is not listening at this port. The SQL is an Express edition.

Answer 1

USE master
GO
xp_readerrorlog 0, 1, N'Server is listening on', 'any', NULL, NULL, N'asc' 
GO

[Identify Port used by Named Instance of SQL Server Database Engine by Reading SQL Server Error Logs]