Steve Fenton

Dealing with the address access denied exception

This article literally only exists because the link supplied in the System.ServiceModel.AddressAccessDeniedException didn’t work at all for me. The basic scenario is that you are debugging a WCF service in Visual Studio and you get this error:

System.ServiceModel.AddressAccessDeniedException: HTTP could not register URL http://+:8001/MyService/. Your process does not have access rights to this namespace (see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=70353 for details). —> System.Net.HttpListenerException: Access is denied

This is really easy to solve. Close Visual Studio and re-open it using the “Run As Administrator” option. This will then give Visual Studio the access rights to run the service.