Sorry forgot to mention we are attempting to connect to a named instance. On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 at 13:11, DotNet Dude <adotnetd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > We’re facing a strange problem. A new Web server of ours is hosting a > legacy asp.net web service (asmx) in IIS and for some reason connections > to the database backend do not work unless we specifically put the default > 1433 port number in the connection string in the web.config. > > Also, from the web server a UDL file is able to connect without the port > specified so seems a bit strange the web app cannot do the same. > > Any ideas? > > Cheers >
