If you are self-hosting a WCF service, exposed via HTTP and requiring certificates for transport security, you’ll probably need to learn a little bit about netsh. If you are using IIS, you’ll just set up the certificates using inetmgr, but because you are self-hosting, you’ll need to run a command such as this: netsh httpContinue reading “Self Hosted WCF Service with Certificates”
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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 (seeContinue reading “Dealing with the Address Access Denied Exception”
Event Code 3005: An Unhandled Exception has Occurred
If you have come across this rather vague message (Event Code 3005: An Unhandled Exception has Occurred), you will have spotted that there are very few resources that give any reasonable answers on the root cause of the issue – that’s probably why you are here, so I will do my best to help. ForContinue reading “Event Code 3005: An Unhandled Exception has Occurred”
TransactionScope and WCF Services
The problem I encountered was that, while I had started a TransactionScope in my calling method (and could even see a current transaction in my services) – an error in a second WCF service call was NOT rolling back the changes made in a previous WCF service call. The behaviour was as if each serviceContinue reading “TransactionScope and WCF Services”