System.ServiceModel.AddressAccessDeniedException: HTTP could not register URL http::8080

Question

I have created my first self-hosted WCF service. I hosted it in a C# console app but it throws an error:

System.ServiceModel.AddressAccessDeniedException: HTTP could not register URL http: 8080

When I run Visual Studio 2013 as administrator, then it works well, but not if I don't. So any way to get it done automatically instead of starting VS as an ADMIN?

So far I created a HelloService class library in which I added a WCF service which consists of an interface IHelloService and HelloService.

IHelloService:

namespace HelloService
{
    [ServiceContract]
    public interface IHelloService
    {
        [OperationContract]
        String GetMsg();
    }
}

HelloService:

namespace HelloService
{
    public class HelloService : IHelloService
    {
        public String GetMsg()
        {
            return "Service Accessed";
        }
    }
}

Then I created a C# console app HelloServiceHost which has an app.config file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
  <system.serviceModel>
    <behaviors>
      <serviceBehaviors >
        <behavior name="MexBehaviour">
          <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true"/>
        </behavior>
      </serviceBehaviors>
    </behaviors>
    <services>
      <service name="HelloService.HelloService" 
               behaviorConfiguration="MexBehaviour" >
        <endpoint 
            address="HelloService" 
            binding="basicHttpBinding" 
            contract="HelloService.IHelloService"></endpoint>
        <endpoint 
            address="HelloService" 
            binding="netTcpBinding" 
            contract="HelloService.IHelloService"></endpoint>
        <endpoint 
            address="mex" 
            binding="mexHttpBinding" 
            contract="IMetadataExchange"></endpoint>
        <host>
          <baseAddresses>
            <add baseAddress="http://localhost:8080/"/>
            <add baseAddress="net.tcp://localhost:8081/"/>
          </baseAddresses>
        </host>
      </service>
    </services>
  </system.serviceModel>
</configuration> 

and program.cs file:

using HelloService;
using System.ServiceModel;

namespace HelloServiceHost
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            using(ServiceHost sh = new ServiceHost(typeof(HelloService.HelloService)))
            {
                sh.Open();
                Console.WriteLine("Host Started @"+ System.DateTime.UtcNow.ToShortDateString());
                sh.Close();
            }
        }
    }
}

I followed a video tutorial exactly but it's not working why ?

I am using VS 2013, .net 4

Answer 1

Start the cmd as Administrator and enter:

netsh http add urlacl url=http://+:8080/MyUri user=DOMAIN\user

this worked for me.