Cannot access IIS 7.5 hosted WCF service from client.

Question

Hi,

I have a WCF webservice that is hosted in IIS 7.5. Inside the Service solution I have a test client that is able to invoke the service with no issues. even tested it with the Visual studio WCF client test tool. However whenever i try to access the service using a client build on another solution i get the error: System.ServiceModel.CommunicationException TCP error code 10013: An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions.

Any hint to solve this issue?

thanks.

Answer 1

To get WCF to work on IIS 7.5 you must enable some services. See: http://www.aaronlerch.com/blog/2007/12/11/enabling-wcf-services-within-iis-on-windows-vista/