I am trying to connect just a Hello world bot application and its getting the error POST connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:3978, on the emulator, i have tried with valid MSA id and secret and also blank ones. but still receiving the same.
Resolved this issue by downloading, unzipping and copying the Visual Studio Bot Application Folder from https://docs.botframework.com/en-us/downloads/ to the C:Users\admin\Documents\Visual Studio 2017\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C# folder.
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Resolved this issue by downloading, unzipping and copying the Visual Studio Bot Application Folder from https://docs.botframework.com/en-us/downloads/ to the C:Users\admin\Documents\Visual Studio 2017\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C# folder.