No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it?

Question

Sometimes I get the following error while I was doing HttpWebRequest to a WebService. I copied my code below too.

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System.Net.WebException: Unable to connect         


        

Answer 1

There is a service called "SQL Server Browser" that provides SQL Server connection information to clients.

In my case, none of the existing solutions worked because this service was not running. I resumed it and everything went back to working perfectly.