Question

I have a windows service project that references an asp.net webservice. When I run this service locally on my machine via VS it works fine and when I call the web method I get the results I want.

Today I deployed this to a test server and when I call the web method it fails because the it is trying to connect to the local host webservice and not the one on the server. The error I get is “Unable to Connect to remote server –> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it: 127.0.0.1”

My service has a app.config file and the web service settings are correctly pointing at the webservice url. I know the url is correct as when I put it into IE it resolves to the webservice. Also the properties of the webservices are correct.

Any suggestions on how the service is getting hold of localhost would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Resolved this today at work with the following lines of code.

webservice ws = new webservice()   
ws.Url = (new xxxx.Properties.Settings()).WS;
ws.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultNetworkCredentials;

Thanks for all your help guys
Cheers
APW