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Sam Chaudry
Sam Chaudry
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Posted by Sam Chaudry
Sam Chaudry
25,519 Points

I'm getting Web API error

Hi

I'm running visual studio on my mac building a web api on the C sharp course. However I keep getting the following:

"ExceptionMessage": "Could not resolve host '(localdb)'", "ExceptionType": "System.Net.Sockets.SocketException",

I have updated visual studio and still nothing. It has only started to happen after using the nuget package manager. Any help would be much appreciated...

2 Answers

Robert Stefanic
Robert Stefanic
35,170 Points
Robert Stefanic
Robert Stefanic
35,170 Points

Your application is trying to connect to an instance of LocalDB, but it can't connect. If you're using a Mac, then the reason it can't connect is because LocalDB doesn't exist for Mac.

You'll have to either set up different database and connect to it or run LocalDB in some kind of container.